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

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

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

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 ...

Henry Carnell is an Oregon-based journalist covering tech, climate and science with a special emphasis on the LGBTQ community. His reporting has appeared in Mother Jones, the Washington ...

The security system that underlies the internet makes use of a curious fact: You can broadcast part of your encryption to make your information much more secure.

Common sense has been viewed as one of the hardest challenges in AI. That said, ChatGPT4 has acquired what some believe is an impressive sense of humanity. How is this possible? Listen to this week’s ...

Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, linguists can use neural networks to explore how people learn. Researchers got ...