Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular ...

Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has ...

According to mathematical legend, Peter Sarnak and Noga Alon made a bet about optimal graphs in the late 1980s. They’ve now ...

A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be created in exotic materials.

The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language.

A popular hypothesis for how the brain clears molecular waste, which may help explain why sleep feels refreshing, is a subject of debate.

Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, linguists can use neural networks to explore how people learn. Researchers got ...

Quantum gravity could help physicists unite the currently incompatible worlds of quantum mechanics and gravity. In this episode, Monika Schleier-Smith discusses her pioneering experimental approach, ...