How does a cell know when it’s been damaged? A molecular alarm, set off by mutated RNA and colliding ribosomes, signals ...

Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ...

After just a few months of work, a complete newcomer to the world of sphere packing has solved one of its biggest open problems.

Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ready to study dark matter and dark energy in unprecedented detail.

An attack on a fundamental proof technique reveals a glaring security issue for blockchains and other digital encryption ...

A better understanding of human smell is emerging as scientists interrogate its fundamental elements: the odor molecules that ...

Investigations of the simplest possible clocks have revealed their fundamental limitations — as well as insights into the nature of time itself.

The precursors of heavy elements might arise in the plasma underbellies of swollen stars or in smoldering stellar corpses. They definitely exist in East Lansing, Michigan.

The puzzling behavior of black hole interiors has led researchers to propose a new physical law: the second law of quantum complexity.

Physicists have ruled out a mundane explanation for the strange findings of an old Soviet experiment, leaving open the possibility that the results point to a new fundamental particle.

A 1930s-era breakthrough is helping physicists understand how quantum threads could weave together into a holographic space-time fabric.