Physicists recently mapped the hidden shape that underlies the quantum behaviors of a crystal, using a new method that’s ...

Conor Feehly is a science writer based in New Zealand. He covers topics ranging from astronomy to neuroscience.

Studies of neural metabolism reveal our brain’s effort to keep us alive and the evolutionary constraints that sculpted our ...

By extending the scope of the key insight behind Fermat’s Last Theorem, four mathematicians have made great strides toward ...

Reversible programs run backward as easily as they run forward, saving energy in theory. After decades of research, they may ...

Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go ...

Manu Prakash works on the world’s most urgent problems and seemingly frivolous questions at the same time. They add up to a ...

Mathematicians soon hypothesized that as your set gets bigger, the biggest sum-free subsets will get much larger than N /3.

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

Changes in the number, shape, efficiency and interconnectedness of organelles in the cells of flight muscles provide extra energy for birds’ continent-spanning feats. Weighing in at a single ounce, ...