Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

Intuition breaks down once we’re dealing with the endless. To begin with: Some infinities are bigger than others.

In October 2008, Chris Bretherton lifted off from the coast of northern Chile in a C-130 turboprop plane. It was too dark to see the sandy hills of the Atacama Desert below, but the darkness suited ...

Henry Yuen is developing a new mathematical language to describe problems whose inputs and outputs aren’t ordinary numbers.

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An exploration of how mathematicians are still renovating and rebuilding the core pillars of their field today.

Innovations in imaging and genetic engineering are coming together to probe the biophysics of cytoplasm inside living animals.

They ask us to believe, for example, that the world we experience is fundamentally divided from the subatomic realm it’s built from. Or that there is a wild proliferation of parallel universes, or ...

Physically magnifying objects using a key moisture-absorbing ingredient in diapers has opened an unprecedented view of the microbial world. When you slip a slide under a microscope, a system of glass ...