In CERN’s high-temperature superconducting laboratory near Geneva, a wiring machine combines dozens of strands of niobium–tin ...

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

Around the world, volcanologists are following the path of magma as it travels between connected volcanoes, in an effort that ...

The basic shape that best describes our expanding universe is also the hardest shape for physicists to understand.

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 ...

Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over longer periods, scientists rely on a more tactile technology. Primordial black ...

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

Promise and controversy continues to surround string theory as a potential unified theory of everything. In the latest episode of The Joy of Why, Cumrun Vafa discusses his progress in trying to find ...

In a year filled with sweet new observations in astronomy and tantalizing breakthroughs in condensed matter physics, the brand-new space telescope takes the cake.

Naomi Saphra thinks that most research into language models focuses too much on the finished product. She’s mining the history of their training for insights into why these systems work the way they ...

Explore the year’s most surprising computational revelations, including a new fundamental relationship between time and space, an undergraduate who overthrew a 40-year-old conjecture, and the ...