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Physicists have long searched for hypothesized dark matter particles called WIMPs. Now, focus may be shifting to the axion — an ultra-lightweight particle whose existence would solve two mysteries at once.

New research makes a molecular connection between the brain and aging — and shows that overactive neurons can shorten life span.

We finally know how big a set of numbers can get before it has to contain a pattern known as a “polynomial progression.”

Readers’ modifications of a bean machine showed how deterministic laws are capable of producing random-seeming behavior.

A surprisingly youthful estimate of the age of the rings has stirred a backlash.

Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can’t be overcome with good design alone.

Calculations involving a higher dimension are guiding physicists toward a misstep in Stephen Hawking’s legendary black hole analysis.

After millions of games, machine learning algorithms found creative solutions and unexpected new strategies that could transfer to the real world.

Taste and smell receptors in unexpected organs monitor the state of the body’s natural microbial health and raise an alarm over invading parasites.