The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of ...

Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size ...

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ...

A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is ...

Claire L. Evans is a Los Angeles-based writer and musician exploring biology, technology, and culture.

An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math, and what it means to be a scientist.

Fan Chung, who has an Erdős number of 1, discusses the importance of connection — both human and mathematical.

Take a deep breath. A flow of air has rushed into your lungs, where the oxygen moves into your bloodstream, fueling metabolic fires in cells throughout your body. You, being an aerobic organism, use ...

In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

How does a cell know when it’s been damaged? A molecular alarm, set off by mutated RNA and colliding ribosomes, signals danger.