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Our new series of articles explores the search for fundamental structure at the edge of science.

Vinton Cerf helped create the internet 40 years ago, and he’s still working to connect people around the world — and off it.

Recent experiments show that particles should be able to go faster than light when they quantum mechanically “tunnel” through walls.

The p-adics form an infinite collection of number systems based on prime numbers. They’re at the heart of modern number theory.

Have fun exploring a numerical puzzle, a geometric puzzle and a game of random patterns, all inspired by the playful genius of the legendary mathematician.

In 2020, researchers reported that they had created a room-temperature superconductor. That paper has now been retracted.

The physicist Jeff Gore tests theories about microbe communities experimentally and finds new rules governing ecological stability.

The ingredients for reactions ancestral to metabolism could have formed very easily in the primordial soup, new work suggests.

After 44 years, there’s finally a better way to find approximate solutions to the notoriously difficult traveling salesperson problem.