The puzzling behavior of black hole interiors has led researchers to propose a new physical law: the second law of quantum complexity.

The marine geochemist Chris German brings decades of experience studying seafloor hydrothermal vents to NASA’s preparations for visits to other ocean worlds in our solar system.

A novel type of neural network is helping physicists with the daunting challenge of data analysis.

By measuring inflated helium nuclei, physicists have challenged our best understanding of the force that binds protons and neutrons.

With embryolike constructs built entirely from stem cells, researchers can revolutionize our understanding of development. But how close to an embryo is too close?

Once dismissed as myths, monstrous rogue waves that tower over ships and appear without warning are real. Wave-science researcher Ton van den Bremer and Steven Strogatz discuss how rogue waves can form in relatively calm seas and whether their threat can…

A series of new papers describes how to fully characterize key dynamical systems with relatively little data.

Real data can be hard to get, so researchers are turning to synthetic data to train their artificial intelligence systems.

To buffer the brain against menaces in the blood, a dynamic, multi-tiered system of protection is built into the brain’s blood vessels.

By treating molecules as geometric tessellations, scientists devised a new way to forecast how 2D materials might self-assemble.

In new work on graphs’ hidden structure, mathematicians probe the limits of randomness.

A new paper finds a faster method for determining when two mathematical groups are the same.

New modeling work suggests why nature is more diverse than niche-based ecological theory predicts.

Transcendental numbers include famous examples like e and π, but it took mathematicians centuries to understand them.

Jellyfish and other aquatic creatures embody solutions to diverse problems in engineering, medicine and mathematics. John Dabiri, a fluid dynamics expert, talks with Steven Strogatz about what jellyfish can teach us about going with the flow.

Astronomers have found a background din of exceptionally long-wavelength gravitational waves pervading the cosmos. The cause? Probably supermassive black hole collisions, but more exotic options can’t be ruled out.

Physicists finally know where at least some of these high-energy particles come from, which helps make the neutrinos useful for exploring fundamental physics.

New research reveals how marine microbes use an extra membrane that once had digestive functions to boost their yield from photosynthesis.

Ana Caraiani and James Newton have extended an important result in number theory to the imaginary realm.

Mathematicians can often figure out what happens as quantities grow infinitely large. What about when they are just a little big?

For decades, physicists have struggled to develop a quantum theory of gravity. But what if gravity — and space-time — are fundamentally classical?