Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial ...

Researchers got a better look at chatbots’ thoughts, amateurs learned just how complicated simple systems can be, and codes became expert self-fixers.

Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay.

Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and overturned long-held assumptions about the immune system and RNA.

To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source.

Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future.

Physicists discovered strange supersolids, constructed new kinds of superconductors, and continued to make the case that the ...

In a first, researchers have shown that adding more “qubits” to a quantum computer can make it more resilient. It’s an essential step on the long road to practical applications.

This year, superconductivity — the flow of electric current with zero resistance — was discovered in three distinct materials. Two instances stretch the textbook understanding of the phenomenon. The ...