Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to ...

It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A ...

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.

Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is ...

Pose a question to a Magic 8 Ball, and it’ll answer yes, no or something annoyingly indecisive. We think of it as a kid’s toy, but theoretical computer scientists employ a similar tool. They often ...