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How new mathematical techniques can be used to revitalize a 650-year-old work of art.

The biologists Rosemary and Peter Grant have spent four decades on a tiny island in the Galápagos. Their discoveries reveal how new animal species can emerge in just a few […]

String theory has so far failed to live up to its promise as a way to unite gravity and quantum mechanics. At the same time, it has blossomed into one […]

Gene drives promise to spread a trait across an entire population — potentially even eradicating an entire species. But evolutionary forces are going to alter even the best-engineered plans.

The physicist Tracy Slatyer is searching for faint wisps of dark matter annihilating in the early universe — and perhaps in hiding places closer to home.

Researchers have uncovered deep connections among different types of random objects, illuminating hidden geometric structures.

Physicists are confronting their “nightmare scenario.” What does the absence of new particles suggest about how nature works?

The physicist-mathematician Miranda Cheng is working to harness a mysterious connection between string theory, algebra and number theory.

An early sign that neutrinos behave differently than antineutrinos suggests an answer to one of the biggest questions in physics.