A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem. Getting there meant ...

Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, ...

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

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

Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to understand. Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli brings to the problem a perspective ...

Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the ...

Hypothetical devices that can quickly and accurately answer questions have become a powerful tool in computational complexity ...

Henry Carnell is an Oregon-based journalist covering tech, climate and science with a special emphasis on the LGBTQ community. His reporting has appeared in Mother Jones, the Washington ...

Researchers got a better look at the thoughts of chatbots, amateurs learned exactly how complicated simple systems can be, and quantum computers passed an essential milestone. The end of 2024 seems a ...