Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.

Scientists successfully borrow concepts from string theory to explain the network architecture of branching biological systems like neurons ...

The most striking passages in Picky, a forthcoming book by the historian Helen Zoe Veit, describe the way famous 19th-century American figures ate as children. I found myself gripped with envy as I ...

The big bang wasn’t the start of everything, but it has been impossible to see what came before. Now a new kind of cosmology is lifting the veil on the beginning of time ...

It is the most sweeping climate change policy ‌rollback ​by the administration to date, after a string of regulatory cuts and other moves intended to unfetter fossil fuel development and stymie the ...

“Dogs like to watch dogs, just like humans like to watch humans,” said Dr. Freya Mowat, a veterinary ophthalmologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an author of the study, which was ...

When a cell divides, it performs a feat of microscopic choreography—duplicating its DNA and depositing it into two new cells.

A viral X post has put the spotlight on physicist Ashoke Sen, the Kolkata-born scientist who triggered the “Second Superstring Revolution,” won a $3 million prize.

The age of AI-generated music and AI-aided fiction has arrived. Will “canned” art push musicians, writers, and others out of jobs?

Congress ended funding for Reading First in 2009. The more recent science of reading movement, though, has been propelled by ...

Background Complexity theory has been chosen by many authors as a suitable lens through which to examine health and social care. Despite its potential value, many empirical investigations apply the ...

The universe feels three-dimensional — but some of the deepest physics suggests reality may have 11 dimensions hidden from our senses. This idea comes from theories like string theory and M-theory, ...