The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A ...

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and ...

Scientists have identified tubulin structures in primitive Asgard archea that may have been the precursor of our own cellular ...

Recent progress on both analog and digital simulations of quantum fields foreshadows a future in which quantum computers ...

Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of ...

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An updated evolutionary model shows that living systems evolve in a split-and-hit-the-gas dynamic, where new lineages appear ...

While much of our planet’s air and seas are stirred at a tempest’s whim, some features are far more regular. At the equator, thousand-kilometer-long waves persist amid the chaos. In both the ocean and ...

Mathematicians have illuminated what sets of points can look like if the distances between them are all whole numbers. On its ...