Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular ...

Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has ...

According to mathematical legend, Peter Sarnak and Noga Alon made a bet about optimal graphs in the late 1980s. They’ve now ...

A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be created in exotic materials.

The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language.

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, linguists can use neural networks to explore how people learn. Researchers got ...

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.

Cells in our bodies are constantly dying — and these countless tiny deaths are essential to human health and multicellular life itself. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with cellular ...