Individual cells in the brain light up for specific ideas. These concept neurons, once known as “Jennifer Aniston cells,” ...

Heat is supposed to ruin anything it touches. But physicists have shown that an idealized form of magnetism is heatproof.

Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, ...

A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem. Getting there meant ...

It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A ...

Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to understand. Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli brings to the problem a perspective ...

Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to understand. Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli brings to the problem a perspective ...