Half of our genome is made of transposons — snips of DNA that can move and copy themselves. But they’re more than parasites ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spots mysterious “little red dots” everywhere. A bold new theory suggests they’re suns dozens ...

Around 700 million years ago, a group of organisms resembling little more than glowing, gelatinous blobs split off from the rest of the animals, forming possibly the earliest branching animal lineage.

Hidden correspondences hint at a deeper structure to the mathematical universe. Our columnist unpacks one of those connections and asks mathematicians what they might mean.

Fanni Daniella Szakál is a marine biologist turned science writer. Her work has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, and Hakai Magazine.

By revisiting the famous problem — which was controversially solved in the 1970s with the help of computers — mathematicians ...

The mystery of the flipping foraminifera may conceal a rarely observed evolutionary process playing out across the planet.

In 2004, two mathematicians hypothesized a powerful kind of sandwich. They were studying graphs, which are collections of points (called vertices) and lines (called edges). Graphs might represent ...

Jonathan Halliwell explains how quantum decoherence is key to understanding how we transition from a world with a wave-like nature of matter and energy to the classical macroscopic world that we’re ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spots mysterious “little red dots” everywhere. A bold new theory suggests they’re suns dozens of times larger than our entire solar system. Faced with observations of ...

Computer scientist Melanie Mitchell discusses why artificial intelligence doesn’t “think” or “reason” like humans, and how we can create better methods for measuring machine cognition. No one yet ...