Abstractions blog

A team of physicists has entangled three photons over a considerable distance, which could lead to more powerful quantum cryptography.

Recent explorations of unique geometric worlds reveal perplexing patterns, including the Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio.

Letting human brain organoids grow in animal brains could be an ethical new option for experimental studies of neurological disorders.

Zero-knowledge proofs allow researchers to prove their knowledge without divulging the knowledge itself.

Efforts to build a better digital “nose” suggest that our perception of scents reflects both the structure of aromatic molecules and the metabolic processes that make them.

The chemists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless were recognized for their development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.

Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking experiments with entangled particles.

Svante Pääbo has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for studying our extinct ancestors’ DNA.

Using inserted genetic circuitry, synthetic biologists controlled the growth of plant roots for the first time.