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Improvements in how densely spheres and other shapes can be packed together could lead to advances in materials science, deep space communication and theoretical physics.

Striking evidence that plants warn each other of environmental dangers is reviving a once ridiculed field.

By investigating the central role played by knots in fluids and fields, physicists hope to unravel long-standing mysteries of turbulence.

A rare brain stimulation study suggests that a brain circuit known as the “salience network” contributes to differences in our ability to overcome challenges and cope with stress.

To determine the nature of infinity, mathematicians face a choice between two new logical axioms. What they decide could help shape the future of mathematical truth.

Working on the centuries-old twin primes conjecture, two solitary researchers and a massive collaboration have made enormous advances over the last six months.

Analyzing individual cancer cells could reveal the answer to some of the disease’s most enduring mysteries.

Circulating RNAs carry messages for plants and invertebrates. Do they do the same for us?

Physicists have devised experiments that can probe the interface between quantum mechanics and general relativity.