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Long-overlooked “tunneling nanotubes” and other bridges between cells act as conduits for sharing RNA, proteins or even whole organelles.

An ambitious study in yeast shows that the health of cells depends on the highly intertwined effects of many genes, few of which can be deleted together without consequence.

In new computer experiments, artificial-intelligence algorithms can tell the future of chaotic systems.

By making the first progress on the “chromatic number of the plane” problem in over 60 years, an anti-aging pundit has achieved mathematical immortality.

Atomic clocks are letting physicists tighten the lasso around elusive phenomena such as dark matter.

Independent scientists have cast serious doubt on a claimed detection of dark matter.

The statistician Donald Richards lives to uncover subtle patterns hiding in real-world data.

How the ultra-cooperative behavior of ants, bees and other social insects could have evolved continues to challenge formal analysis. But a new theory about hedging bets against nature’s unpredictability may change the math and shift the debate.

Decades after physicists happened upon a stunning mathematical coincidence, researchers are getting close to understanding the link between two seemingly unrelated geometric universes.