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Ana Caraiani and James Newton have extended an important result in number theory to the imaginary realm.

New research reveals how marine microbes use an extra membrane that once had digestive functions to boost their yield from photosynthesis.

Physicists finally know where at least some of these high-energy particles come from, which helps make the neutrinos useful for exploring fundamental physics.

Astronomers have found a background din of exceptionally long-wavelength gravitational waves pervading the cosmos.

Jellyfish and other aquatic creatures embody solutions to diverse problems in engineering, medicine and mathematics. John Dabiri, a fluid dynamics expert, talks with Steven Strogatz about what jellyfish can teach us about going with the flow.

Transcendental numbers include famous examples like e and π, but it took mathematicians centuries to understand them.

New modeling work suggests why nature is more diverse than niche-based ecological theory predicts.

A new paper finds a faster method for determining when two mathematical groups are the same.

Mathematicians probe the limits of randomness in new work estimating quantities called Ramsey numbers.