Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

Intuition breaks down once we’re dealing with the endless. To begin with: Some infinities are bigger than others.

Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers.

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Innovations in imaging and genetic engineering are coming together to probe the biophysics of cytoplasm inside living animals.

An exploration of how mathematicians are still renovating and rebuilding the core pillars of their field today.

Using a relatively young theory, a team of mathematicians has started to answer questions whose roots lie at the very beginning of mathematics. Climate science is the most significant scientific ...

Last year, an enormous map of the cosmos hinted that the engine driving cosmic expansion might be sputtering. Now physicists are back with an even bigger map, and a stronger conclusion.

Number theorist Ken Ono is teaching Olympians to swim more efficiently.

The V-JEPA system uses ordinary videos to understand the physics of the real world.

“Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law of thermodynamics, gives physicists a way to detect quantum entanglement without destroying it. Analog vs. Digital: The Race Is ...

Explore the year’s most surprising computational revelations, including a new fundamental relationship between time and space, an undergraduate who overthrew a 40-year-old conjecture, and the ...