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 ...

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

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

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

Off the coast of Japan, biologists netted a pea-size jellyfish with an unusual circadian clock — a chance finding that suggests there are likely more overlooked biological timekeeping mechanisms to be ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The math of data structures helps us understand how different storage systems come with different trade-offs between resources such as time and memory. Is the inside of a vision model at all like a ...