The last decade has seen vast improvements in humanoid robots, but graduating to widespread use might require going back to the fundamentals. “Not reliably,” Hurst said. “I don’t think it’s totally ...

Pushed down to a certain scale, the laws of physics seem to fall apart. Astrid Eichhorn, a leader in an area of study called asymptotic safety, thinks we just need to push a little further.

A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical ...

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

Every second, hundreds to thousands of molecules move through thousands of nuclear pores in each of your cells. A new high-definition view reveals the machine in action.

Baez called for the development of new mathematics — he called it “green” math — to better capture the workings of Earth’s biosphere and climate. For his part, he sought to apply category theory, a ...

Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces. Clare Watson is a freelance science journalist based on the eastern coast of Australia.

Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

Computer science, at its most fundamental, is all about inputs and outputs. Consider the simple case of multiplying two numbers on a pocket calculator. You punch in some inputs — the specific numbers ...