Decades of weird experimental results appeared to support the existence of the sterile neutrino, a hypothetical particle that ...

Two research groups say they have significantly reduced the amount of qubits and time required to crack common online ...

In CERN’s high-temperature superconducting laboratory near Geneva, a wiring machine combines dozens of strands of niobium–tin ...

The basic shape that best describes our expanding universe is also the hardest shape for physicists to understand.

Around the world, volcanologists are following the path of magma as it travels between connected volcanoes, in an effort that ...

Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its truths are so ...

“I’ve spent a long time exploring the crystalline beauty of traditional mathematics, but now I’m feeling an urge to study something slightly more earthy,” John Baez wrote on his blog in 2011. An ...

In October 2008, Chris Bretherton lifted off from the coast of northern Chile in a C-130 turboprop plane. It was too dark to see the sandy hills of the Atacama Desert below, but the darkness suited ...

New experiments reveal how astrocytes tune neuronal activity to modulate our mental and emotional states. The results suggest that neuron-only brain models, such as connectomes, leave out a crucial ...