Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know ...

In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now ...

Rare and powerful compounds, known as keystone molecules, can build a web of invisible interactions among species.

A new proof extends the work of the late Maryam Mirzakhani, cementing her legacy as a pioneer of alien mathematical realms.

By training machine learning models with examples of basic science, Miles Cranmer hopes to push the pace of scientific ...

The library sorting problem is used across computer science for organizing far more than just books. A new solution is less than a page-width away from the theoretical ideal. A new proof marks the ...

Today’s AI largely lives in computers, but acting and reacting in the real world — that’s the realm of robots. In this week’s episode, co-host Steven Strogatz talks with pioneering roboticist Daniela ...

In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how even ordinary physical systems put hard limits on ...