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 ...

Larger models can pull off a wider variety of feats, but the reduced footprint of smaller models makes them attractive tools.

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 ...

Physicists and marine biologists built a quantitative framework that predicts how coral polyps collectively construct a variety of coral shapes. Since before she could remember, Eva Llabrés was a ...

The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz and the astrophysicist and author Janna Levin interview leading researchers about the great scientific and mathematical questions of our time.

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 ...