IntroductionLate in the evening of October 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble sat at the eyepiece of the Hooker telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory, atop...

Silvia Vignolini, a physicist who studies natural photonic structures, talks to Julianna Photopoulos about working across traditional scientific boundaries, co-founding start-up...

Introduction“There are five fundamental operations in mathematics,” the German mathematician Martin Eichler supposedly said. “Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and modular forms.” Part of the joke,...

IntroductionThe sun looks immutable, a boring celestial lightbulb that’s always turned on. But this fusion-powered ball of plasma is in constant flux. Every 11...

The cells of all living organisms are powered by the same chemical fuel: adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Now, researchers have found a way to generate...

The cells of all living organisms are powered by the same chemical fuel: adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Now, researchers have found a way to generate...

IntroductionLast October, as the James Webb Space Telescope beamed down its first long exposures of the sky near the constellation Eridanus, astronomers began to...

IntroductionScience routinely puts forward theories, then batters them with data till only one is left standing. In the fledgling science of consciousness, a dominant...

The animal kingdom has benefited from millions of years of biological evolution to adapt processes...

The animal kingdom has benefited from millions of years of biological evolution to adapt processes...

A study of how light from a distant supernova was gravitationally lensed as it travelled...

A new study has confirmed that the predictions of climate-change models agree with observations of...