In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something ...

Researchers have unveiled a new model for the universe’s birth that replaces cosmic inflation with gravitational waves as the ...

He led a team of scientists who helped confirm that a Big Bang was the source of the universe. The discovery earned him a ...

How does one crack the world’s most famous code? The breakthroughs on Kryptos provide a guided tour through the cat and mouse ...

The cosmos is getting its own red carpet, as the inaugural Global Space Awards is debuting later this year with ...

Japanese physicists have demonstrated for the first time that knotoid structures—stable knots—can naturally form within a ...

This balance—neurons as the silent bee workers, waves as the queen’s rhythm holding the hive together—suggests consciousness ...

Einstein was a great thinker who made plenty of mistakes—errors that sometimes led to more meaningful discoveries in physics, ...

Kevin Weil, a vice president at OpenAI, claimed that ChatGPT had found the answers to "previously unsolved" math problems.

For 20 years, he taught “Introductory Astronomy” at Boulder as a way to provide the foundation for how college students ...

The model questions the popular inflation theory, which most experts believe was facilitated after the universe's birth. The ...

Madonna Yoder ’17 studied rocks at MIT. But her passion is for paper—with no scissors. Today, she’s a tessellation expert who ...