The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history — one mathematicians can learn from as they push to ...

Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being ...

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard were recognized for their foundational work in quantum information science.

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

Off the coast of Japan, biologists netted a pea-size jellyfish with an unusual circadian clock — a chance finding that ...

Marlowe Starling is a freelance science journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. She studied journalism and ecology at the University of Florida and has a master’s degree in science journalism from ...

The last decade has seen vast improvements in humanoid robots, but graduating to widespread use might require going back to the fundamentals. “Not reliably,” Hurst said. “I don’t think it’s totally ...

Astrid Eichhorn spends her days thinking about how the laws of physics change at the tiniest scales. Imagine zooming in closer and closer to the device on which you’re reading this article. Its ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover examines the latest developments in the “forever war” over whether string theory can describe the ...