Naomi Saphra thinks that most research into language models focuses too much on the finished product. She’s mining the ...

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question — how hard is it to untie a knot? — has a complicated answer.

Building an accurate model of Earth’s climate requires a lot of data. Photography reveals the extreme efforts scientists have ...

Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds.

Tipping points in our climate predictions are both wildly dramatic and wildly uncertain. Can mathematicians make them useful?

These phenomena are erratic. They interact at every scale and manifest as weather, from clear sunny days to blustery ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A ...

A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life ...

New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, revealing how rare and vulnerable our temperate moment is.