In 1992, three physicists began an argument about how many numbers we need to fully describe the universe. Their surprisingly ...

After a 35-year quest, the final solution to a famous puzzle called Kryptos has been found. Two writers discovered the fourth ...

One of the things I love most about science is that sometimes it gets things wrong. In other disciplines, errors are fatal; ...

Ice XXI” is an entirely new phase of ice with a crystal structure that’s more complex than the ice found on Titan or Ganymede ...

Mathematicians thought that they understood how rotation works, but now a new proof has revealed a surprising twist that ...

Quantum information systems, systems that process, store or transmit information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt share economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in ...

Miracles by definition defy science. But a new research effort attempts to understand what our experiences with them do to the brain.

A team of international physicists has brought Bayes’ centuries-old probability rule into the quantum world. By applying the ...

If you graph the history of economic growth, it looks a lot like a hockey stick laid on the ground with its blade sticking up ...

Scientists discover all stalagmites growing from cave floors follow a mathematical rule that explains how these mineral ...