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As researchers delve deeper into the behavior of decentralized collective systems, they’re beginning to question some of their initial assumptions.

A state-of-the-art supercomputer simulation indicates that a feedback loop between global warming and cloud loss can push Earth’s climate past a disastrous tipping point in as little as a century.

Physicists have devised a holographic model of “de Sitter space,” the term for a universe like ours, that could give us new clues about the origin of space and time.

A new proof shows why an uncountably infinite number of Möbius strips will never fit into a three-dimensional space.

Researchers hope that the genes of a glowing squid can illuminate how animals evolved organs for beneficial bacteria.

In spite of their name, “imaginary” numbers are as real as any other numbers, especially when it comes to hunting for lost treasure.

The new work promises to give researchers a better grip on the core mystery of quantum mechanics.

The brain can’t directly encode the passage of time, but recent work hints at a workaround for putting timestamps on memories of events.

Recent progress on the “sum product” problem recalls a celebrated mathematical result that revealed the power of miniature number systems.