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Neuroscience has found that gestures are not merely important as tools of expression but as guides of cognition and perception.

One of the first quantum simulators has produced a puzzling phenomenon: a row of atoms that repeatedly pops back into place. Physicists have been racing to explain what might be […]

In mathematics, where proofs are everything, evidence is important too. But evidence is only as good as the model, and modeling can be dangerous business. So how much evidence is […]

A two-player game can reveal whether the universe has an infinite amount of complexity.

Brief cosmic blips called fast radio bursts have puzzled astronomers since their discovery earlier this decade. Now researchers appear to be close to understanding what powers them.

A new proof shows why an uncountably infinite number of Möbius strips will never fit into a three-dimensional space.

Physicists have devised a holographic model of “de Sitter space,” the term for a universe like ours, that could give us new clues about the origin of space and time.

The Born rule, which connects the math of quantum theory to the outcomes of experiments, has been derived from simpler physical principles. The new work promises to give researchers a […]

The brain can’t directly encode the passage of time, but recent work hints at a workaround for putting timestamps on memories of events.