In 1973, Xerox engineers invented the ethernet connection, which allowed the first personal computers to communicate with a ...

Three high schoolers and their mentor revisited a century-old theorem to prove that all knots can be found in a fractal ...

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The reference frames from which observers view quantum events can themselves have multiple possible locations at once — an ...

New observations of microscopic vortices confirm the existence of a paradoxical phase of matter that may also arise inside neutron stars. In a lab nestled between the jagged peaks of the Austrian Alps ...

Yizhi “Patrick” Cai is coordinating a global effort to write a complete synthetic yeast genome. If he succeeds, the resulting cell will be the artificial life most closely related to humans to date.

The mathematician and author Steven Strogatz and the astrophysicist and author Janna Levin interview leading researchers about the great scientific and mathematical questions of our time.

Much of mathematics is driven by intuition, by a deep-rooted sense of what should be true. But sometimes instinct can lead a mathematician astray. Early evidence might not represent the bigger picture ...