George Pólya’s random walk theorem absolved him of being a lurker and revealed how the laws of chance interact with physical ...

For many people, the current anxiety about artificial intelligence feels overblown. They say, "We've been here before." Every ...

In our three-dimensional space, elementary particles neatly filter into either bosons or fermions. But in lower dimensions, that distinction gets a bit murky.

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

Dark energy is one of those cosmological features that we are still learning about. While we can't see it directly, we can most famously observe its effects on the universe—primarily how it is causing ...