Until his dying days, the giant of 20th-century physics obsessed over the underpinnings of space and time, and how we can all ...

A decade after the discovery of the “amplituhedron,” physicists have excavated more of the timeless geometry underlying the standard picture of how particles move.

John von Neumann came about as close as humanly possible to embodying the Platonic ideal of a genius. Conversant in ancient Greek by age 6, the Hungarian made significant mathematical advances in his ...

Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system — even between ...

Mathematicians have long wondered how “shapes of constant width” behave in higher dimensions. A surprisingly simple ...

Last year, an immense but brief outburst of seismic energy was soon followed by a long hum that made the world ring. Finding ...

Three years ago, Google’s AlphaFold pulled off the biggest artificial intelligence breakthrough in science to date, accelerating molecular research and kindling deep questions about why we do science.

The problem of common-sense reasoning has plagued the field of artificial intelligence for over 50 years. Now a new approach, borrowing from two disparate lines of thinking, has made important ...

Cryptography is the thread that connects Julius Caesar, World War II and quantum computing, and it now lies under nearly every part of modern life. In this week’s episode, computer scientist Boaz ...