The group — consisting of then-postdocs Sahar Diskin and Philip Easo, graduate student Ritvik Ramanan Radhakrishnan, Benny ...

The theoretical side of the field doesn’t require computing machines. But many questions would never have been posed without ...

At the heart of quantum mechanics lie a few sacred rules for how to use the theory. First and foremost is, roughly, that thou shalt not think about ordinary objects presently whizzing through ordinary ...

An updated view of categorization reflects the modern understanding that the nervous system is more of a prediction engine ...

For the first time in 30 years, computer scientists have found a better way to allocate objects evenly between two groups.

No one yet knows which technology will power the quantum computers of the future, but the race to create them has already ...

From the 1800s to the early 2000s, physicists used the same theory to understand the behavior of fluids. Now, using a modern ...

Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields Medal. No error was found, the proof ...

Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a wealth of new theories to explain them. Now they just need to figure out which ...

An ancient lineage of cyanobacteria is helping biologists uncover an early evolutionary stage of the mind-boggling process that turns light into life. Every second, trillions of watts of solar energy ...