IntroductionThe central objects of study in topology are spaces called manifolds, which look flat when you zoom in on them. The surface of a...

IntroductionIn 2022, researchers at the Bee Sensory and Behavioral Ecology Lab at Queen Mary University of London observed bumblebees doing something remarkable: The diminutive,...

IntroductionIn 2022, researchers at the Bee Sensory and Behavioral Ecology Lab at Queen Mary University of London observed bumblebees doing something remarkable: The diminutive,...

IntroductionWhat’s the best way to solve hard problems? That’s the question at the heart of a subfield of computer science called computational complexity theory....

IntroductionAt a conference in Japan a few years ago, David Dunsky attended a talk about gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space-time created...

IntroductionIshmail Abdus-Saboor has been fascinated by the variety of the natural world since he was a boy growing up in Philadelphia. The nature walks...

IntroductionIn October, a Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper mission. The $5 billion mission...

IntroductionFor all their brilliance, artificial neural networks remain as inscrutable as ever. As these networks get bigger, their abilities explode, but deciphering their inner...

IntroductionDear Readers, Last July, I read this memo to the staff and explained why I had made the difficult decision to move on from my...

IntroductionEver since viruses came to light in the late 1800s, scientists have set them apart from the rest of life. Viruses were far smaller...

IntroductionNothing escapes a black hole … or does it? In the 1970s, the physicist Stephen Hawking described a subtle process by which black holes...

IntroductionFor more than 40 years, Avi Wigderson has studied problems. But as a computational complexity theorist, he doesn’t necessarily care about the answers to...