Three high schoolers and their mentor revisited a century-old theorem to prove that all knots can be found in a fractal ...

In 1973, Xerox engineers invented the ethernet connection, which allowed the first personal computers to communicate with a ...

The clearest picture yet of our “last universal common ancestor” suggests it was a relatively complex organism living 4.2 ...

The reference frames from which observers view quantum events can themselves have multiple possible locations at once — an ...

New observations of microscopic vortices confirm the existence of a paradoxical phase of matter that may also arise inside neutron stars. In a lab nestled between the jagged peaks of the Austrian Alps ...

Yizhi “Patrick” Cai is coordinating a global effort to write a complete synthetic yeast genome. If he succeeds, the resulting cell will be the artificial life most closely related to humans to date.

Detecting a graviton — the hypothetical particle thought to carry the force of gravity — is the ultimate physics experiment. Conventional wisdom, however, says it can’t be done. According to one ...

Much of mathematics is driven by intuition, by a deep-rooted sense of what should be true. But sometimes instinct can lead a mathematician astray. Early evidence might not represent the bigger picture ...

In February 2023, Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot Bard claimed that the James Webb Space Telescope had captured the first image of a planet outside our solar system. It hadn’t. When ...

With lots of data, a strong model and statistical thinking, scientists can make predictions about all sorts of complex phenomena. Today, this practice is evolving to harness the power of machine ...