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

A vast meshwork of soil-bound fungi governs life aboveground. In Alaska, and at field sites around the world, researchers are ...

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

Two research groups say they have significantly reduced the amount of qubits and time required to crack common online ...

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.

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 ...

Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go to the ends of space and time to find a fix.

Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers. The math of data structures helps us understand how different storage ...

Two research groups say they have significantly reduced the amount of qubits and time required to crack common online security technologies. A New Complexity Theory for the Quantum Age “Anomalous” ...