In CERN’s high-temperature superconducting laboratory near Geneva, a wiring machine combines dozens of strands of niobium–tin ...

The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history — one mathematicians can learn from as they push to ...

Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being ...

Around the world, volcanologists are following the path of magma as it travels between connected volcanoes, in an effort that ...

The basic shape that best describes our expanding universe is also the hardest shape for physicists to understand.

Off the coast of Japan, biologists netted a pea-size jellyfish with an unusual circadian clock — a chance finding that ...

Off the coast of Japan, biologists netted a pea-size jellyfish with an unusual circadian clock — a chance finding that suggests there are likely more overlooked biological timekeeping mechanisms to be ...

Columnist Natalie Wolchover examines the latest developments in the “forever war” over whether string theory can describe the ...

The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper folding. “Anomalous” heat flow, which at first appears to violate the second law ...

Emmy Noether showed that fundamental physical laws are just a consequence of simple symmetries. A century later, her insights continue to shape physics.

Promise and controversy continues to surround string theory as a potential unified theory of everything. In the latest episode of The Joy of Why, Cumrun Vafa discusses his progress in trying to find ...