Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

In October 2008, Chris Bretherton lifted off from the coast of northern Chile in a C-130 turboprop plane. It was too dark to see the sandy hills of the Atacama Desert below, but the darkness suited ...

Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers.

Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces. Clare Watson is a freelance science journalist based on the eastern coast of Australia.

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Innovations in imaging and genetic engineering are coming together to probe the biophysics of cytoplasm inside living animals.

An exploration of how mathematicians are still renovating and rebuilding the core pillars of their field today.

Using a relatively young theory, a team of mathematicians has started to answer questions whose roots lie at the very beginning of mathematics. Climate science is the most significant scientific ...

Last year, an enormous map of the cosmos hinted that the engine driving cosmic expansion might be sputtering. Now physicists are back with an even bigger map, and a stronger conclusion.

Number theorist Ken Ono is teaching Olympians to swim more efficiently.