The heartbeat and other bodily processes play a surprising role in shaping perception and cognition.

At the molecular level, glass looks like a liquid. But an artificial neural network has picked up on hidden structure in its molecules that may explain why

Researchers are one step closer to injecting probability into deterministic machines.

Liz MacDonald realized that if she wanted to create the world’s best aurora map, she needed a secret ingredient: Twitter.

How to safely reopen offices, schools and other public spaces while keeping people six feet apart comes down to a question mathematicians have been studying for centuries.

His incompleteness theorems destroyed the search for a mathematical theory of everything. Nearly a century later, we’re still coming to grips with the

Can we test speculations about how quantum physics affects black holes and the Big Bang?

To recognize strange extraterrestrial life and solve biological mysteries on this planet, scientists are searching for an objective definition for life’s basic units.

John Priscu’s search for life that thrives under ice took him to subglacial lakes at the South Pole. Now he has his eye on Mars and Europa.

Earth’s climate has fluctuated through deep time, pushed by these 10 different causes. Here’s how each compares with modern climate change.

Why do mathematicians enjoy proving the same results in different ways?

New calculations show how hypothetical particles called gravitons would give rise to a special kind of noise.

Researchers are examining the power of subtle genetic weaknesses in the immune system to affect the severity of infectious diseases, including COVID-19.

Modified gravity theories have never been able to describe the universe’s first light. A new formulation does.

Symplectic geometry is a relatively new field with implications for much of modern mathematics. Here’s what it’s all about.

Plants ignore the most energy-rich part of sunlight because stability matters more than efficiency, according to a new model of photosynthesis.

Readers simulated the genetics of dog breeding to solve a puzzle about mixed breed percentages and sexual reproduction.

Two mathematicians have proved the first leg of Paul Erdős’ all-time favorite problem about number patterns.

Detailed computer simulations have found that a cosmic contraction can generate features of the universe that we observe today.

The unintentional creation of “sturddlefish” hybrids may illuminate the genomic mechanisms that govern whether species can interbreed.

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