While it’s understandable to focus on the diseases affecting humans, it’s important to study how our illnesses may affect animals.

Robots are about to venture into the sunless depths of lunar craters to investigate ancient water ice trapped there, while remote studies find hints about how water arrives on rocky worlds.

The famed Navier-Stokes equations can lead to cases where more than one result is possible, but only in an extremely narrow set of situations.

Throwing out data seems to make measurements of distances and angles more precise. The reason why has been traced to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle.

Mathematical magic can seem like mind reading. Your job is to reveal the secret behind these four tricks.

Einstein’s denoscription of curved space-time doesn’t easily mesh with a universe made up of quantum wavefunctions. Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll discusses the quest for quantum gravity with host Steven Strogatz.

When researchers gave a genetic molecule the ability to replicate, it evolved over time into a complex network of “hosts” and “parasites” that both competed and cooperated to survive.

Several projects are aiming to bring back mammoths and other species that have vanished from the planet. Whether that’s technically possible is beside the point.

Researchers say we’re on the cusp of “GoPro physics,” where a camera can point at an event and an algorithm can identify the underlying physics equation.

Finding out whether a question is too difficult to ever solve efficiently depends on figuring out just how hard it is. Researchers have now shown how to do that for a major class of problems.

By resolving a paradox about light in a box, researchers hope to clarify the concept of energy in quantum theory.

Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. Now he’s working on how engineers talk to their machines.

“Ribbon concordance” will let mathematicians compare knots by linking them across four-dimensional space.

“Ribbon concordance” will let mathematicians compare knots by linking them across four-dimensional space.

The space telescope is one of the most ambitious scientific projects ever undertaken. Marcia Rieke and Nikole Lewis, two of the scientists leading JWST investigations, talk to Steven Strogatz about how it may transform our understanding of the universe.

Synthetic biology experiments suggest a “MultiFate” model for how genetically identical cells become the many different types found in complex organisms like us.

Why verify every line of a proof, when just a few checks will do?

RNA and peptides coevolving in the primordial world might have jointly served as a precursor to the modern ribosome.

A bit of information theory can help you analyze — and improve — your Wordle game.

The second law of thermodynamics is among the most sacred in all of science, but it has always rested on 19th century arguments about probability. New arguments trace its true source to the flows of quantum information.