They ask us to believe, for example, that the world we experience is fundamentally divided from the subatomic realm it’s built from. Or that there is a wild proliferation of parallel universes, or ...

Mathematicians finally understand the behavior of an important class of differential equations that describe everything from ...

We describe electricity as a flow, but that’s not what happens in a typical wire. Physicists have begun to induce electrons to act like fluids, an effort that could illuminate new ways of thinking ...

How physically magnifying objects using a key ingredient in diapers has opened an unprecedented view of the microbial world.

Machine learning is helping neuroscientists organize vast quantities of cells’ genetic data in the latest neurobiological cartography effort.

Machine learning is helping neuroscientists organize vast quantities of cells’ genetic data in the latest neurobiological cartography effort.

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 ...

All modern multicellular life — all life that any of us regularly see — is made of cells with a knack for compartmentalization. Recent discoveries are revealing how the first eukaryote got its start.

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