By watching for a special kind of flare, astronomers have identified the fingerprints of an Earth-size planet orbiting a distant star.

Mathematicians have proved that copies of smaller graphs can always be used to perfectly cover larger ones.

A recent neutron star merger has defied astronomers’ expectations, leading them to question longstanding ideas about neutron stars and the supernovas that

Faced with a decision, the brain weighs its options by bundling them into rapidly alternating cycles of brain waves.

Zoonotic diseases like influenza and many coronaviruses start out in animals, but their biological machinery often enables them to jump to humans.

A problem confronts cosmology: Two independent measurements of the universe’s expansion give incompatible answers. Now a third method, advanced by an astronomy

A proposal for building wormhole-connected black holes offers a way to probe the paradoxes of quantum information.

The recent discovery of some of the first galaxies in the universe illuminates the darkest era in cosmic history.

As the founding director of a new institute for fundamental research in Rwanda, the physicist Omololu Akin-Ojo hopes to stem the brain drain of Africa’s brightest minds.

Computer scientists established a new boundary on computationally verifiable knowledge. In doing so, they solved major open problems in quantum mechanics and

Recent findings add weight to the evidence that intransitive competitions between species enrich the diversity of nature.

To combat resistant bacteria and refill the trickling antibiotic pipeline, scientists are getting help from deep learning networks.

Glass is anything that’s rigid like a crystal, yet made of disordered molecules like a liquid. To understand why it exists, researchers are attempting to create

Ronald Rivest helped come up with the RSA algorithm, which safeguards online commerce. Now he’s hoping to make democratic elections more trustworthy.

In our mind’s eye, the universe seems to go on forever. But using geometry we can explore a variety of three-dimensional shapes that offer alternatives to

In a new paper, physicists argue that hypothetical particles called axions could explain why the universe isn’t empty.

“Rainbow colorings” recently led to a new proof. It’s not the first time they’ve come in handy.

A study has cemented the link between an intense global warming episode 56 million years ago and volcanism in the North Atlantic, with implications for modern

We give our genes and our environment all the credit for making us who we are. But random noise during development might be a deciding factor, too.

How does experience alter our perceptions? This adapted book excerpt from We Know It When We See It describes how the brain’s visual system rewires itself to