Some quantum cryptographers want to find ways to keep messages secret even if the rules of quantum mechanics don’t hold. The ...

Dozens of new discoveries reveal that defenses evolved by bacteria and viruses billions of years ago still define our own ...

Our tales of AI developing the will to survive, commandeer resources, and manipulate people say more about us than they do ...

Decades of weird experimental results appeared to support the existence of the sterile neutrino, a hypothetical particle that ...

Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI’s impact. As AI models become a ...

Physicists spotted a “terribly exciting” new black hole, doubled down on weakening dark energy, and debated the meaning of quantum mechanics.

The biochemist Nick Lane thinks life first evolved in hydrothermal vents where precursors of metabolism appeared before genetic information. His ideas could lead us to think differently about aging ...

Amanda Gefter is a writer specializing in fundamental physics and cosmology and author of the book Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn (Bantam, January 2014).

The math of data structures helps us understand how different storage systems come with different trade-offs between resources such as time and memory.

Our tales of AI developing the will to survive, commandeer resources, and manipulate people say more about us than they do about language models. Experiments Ring the ‘Death Knell’ for Sterile ...

In work that has been 30 years in the making, mathematicians have proved a major part of a profound mathematical vision called the Langlands program. A group of nine mathematicians has proved the ...

The uniquely vulnerable West Antarctic Ice Sheet holds enough water to raise global sea levels by 5 meters. But when that will happen — and how fast — is anything but settled. However, not all ...