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

Heat is supposed to ruin anything it touches. But physicists have shown that an idealized form of magnetism is heatproof.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...