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.

David Conlon and Asaf Ferber have raised the lower bound for multicolor “Ramsey numbers,” which quantify how big graphs can get before patterns inevitably emerge.

Cora Dvorkin discovered new possibilities for what dark matter could be. Now she’s devising unorthodox ways to identify it.

For almost a century, the anonymous members of Nicolas Bourbaki have written books intended as pure expressions of mathematical thought.

A cryptographic master tool called indistinguishability obfuscation has for years seemed too good to be true. Three researchers have figured out that it can work.

The newly-measured rate of a key nuclear fusion process from the Big Bang matches the picture of the universe 380,000 years later.

It has been thought of as many things: a pointlike object, an excitation of a field, a speck of pure math that has cut into reality. But never has physicists’

Even genes essential for life can be caught in an evolutionary arms race that forces them to change or be replaced.

Bryna Kra searches for the patterns in sequences of numbers that explain how complicated dynamical systems evolve over time.

Struggling with math problems that can't be solved helps us better understand the ones we can.

An exercise in pure mathematics has led to a wide-ranging theory of how the world comes together.

A numerical puzzle, a geometric puzzle and a game of random patterns — all with connections to the legendary mathematician — elicited an enthusiastic response from readers.

Physicists plan to leave no stone unturned, checking whether dark matter tickles different types of detectors, nudges starlight, warms planetary cores or even