According to Einstein’s theory of gravity, black holes have only a small handful of distinguishing characteristics. Quantum ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, connects quantum ...

The quest to find the longest-running simple computer program has identified a new champion. It’s physically impossible to ...

A decade ago, Karen Lloyd discovered single-celled microbes living beneath the seafloor. Now she studies how they can survive ...

For decades, mathematicians have struggled to understand matrices that reflect both order and randomness, like those that ...

Patchen Barss is a Toronto-based science journalist and author. He has contributed to Scientific American, the BBC and Nautilus, among others. His latest book is The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose ...

New studies of the ‘platypus of materials’ help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is ...