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.

For 50 years, mathematicians have believed that the total number of real numbers is unknowable. A new proof suggests otherwise.

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

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 ...

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

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

In October 2008, Chris Bretherton lifted off from the coast of northern Chile in a C-130 turboprop plane. It was too dark to see the sandy hills of the Atacama Desert below, but the darkness suited ...

But after reading Decoherence and Quantum Darwinism, a book published in March 2025 by the physicist Wojciech Zurek, I’m excited by the possibility of an answer that does away with all those fanciful ...

If you were asked to picture how electrons move, you could be forgiven for imagining a stream of particles sluicing down a wire like water rushing through a pipe. After all, we often describe ...