Researchers have shown how to effectively transform one material into another using a finely shaped laser pulse.

A small community of mathematicians is using a software program called Lean to build a new digital repository. They hope it represents the future of their field

Harvey Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles Rice were awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of the cause of a major liver disease.

Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies of black holes.

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their development of CRISPR/Cas9 genetic editing.

After 44 years, there’s finally a better way to find approximate solutions to the notoriously difficult traveling salesperson problem.

The ingredients for reactions ancestral to metabolism could have formed very easily in the primordial soup, new work suggests.

The physicist Jeff Gore tests theories about microbe communities experimentally and finds new rules governing ecological stability.

Physicists have reached a long-sought goal. The catch is that their room-temperature superconductor requires crushing pressures to keep from falling apart.

Have fun exploring a numerical puzzle, a geometric puzzle and a game of random patterns, all inspired by the playful genius of the legendary mathematician.

The p-adics form an infinite collection of number systems based on prime numbers. They’re at the heart of modern number theory.

Recent experiments show that particles should be able to go faster than light when they quantum mechanically “tunnel” through walls.

Vinton Cerf helped create the internet 40 years ago, and he’s still working to connect people around the world — and off it.

Our new series of articles explores the search for fundamental structure at the edge of science.

We’ve created a new way to explore the fundamental constituents of the universe.

From crumpled paper to termite mounds to three-sided coins, L. Mahadevan has turned the whole world into his laboratory.

New research links serotonin and dopamine not just to addiction and depression, but to the ability to control genes.

Deep neural networks, often criticized as “black boxes,” are helping neuroscientists understand the organization of living brains.

In a landmark series of calculations, physicists have proved that black holes can shed information — an apparent violation of Einstein’s theory of relativity.

Researchers see structural changes in genetic material that allow memories to strengthen when remembered.

Once missing in action, middleweight black holes have finally been detected. Now researchers are trying to figure out how they grow from small ones.