Off the coast of Japan, biologists netted a pea-size jellyfish with an unusual circadian clock — a chance finding that suggests there are likely more overlooked biological timekeeping mechanisms to be ...

Marlowe Starling is a freelance science journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. She studied journalism and ecology at the University of Florida and has a master’s degree in science journalism from ...

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard were recognized for their foundational work in quantum information science.

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

Pushed down to a certain scale, the laws of physics seem to fall apart. Astrid Eichhorn, a leader in an area of study called asymptotic safety, thinks we just need to push a little further.

The last decade has seen vast improvements in humanoid robots, but graduating to widespread use might require going back to the fundamentals. “Not reliably,” Hurst said. “I don’t think it’s totally ...

Every second, hundreds to thousands of molecules move through thousands of nuclear pores in each of your cells. A new high-definition view reveals the machine in action.

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks.

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 ...