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Efforts to build a better digital “nose” suggest that our perception of scents reflects both the structure of aromatic molecules and the metabolic processes that make them.

The decades-old Sullivan’s conjecture, about the best way to minimize the surface area of a bubble cluster, was thought to be out of reach for three bubbles and up — until a new breakthrough result.

The chemists Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless were recognized for their development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.

Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for groundbreaking experiments with entangled particles.

Svante Pääbo has been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for studying our extinct ancestors’ DNA.

Readers rescued a Star Trek crew from a probabilistic predicament armed only with the power of mathematical reasoning.

Even though we’ve learned a lot about this relative of smallpox, some mysteries remain due to a lack of political will.

Using inserted genetic circuitry, synthetic biologists controlled the growth of plant roots for the first time.

Of all the endless questions children and mathematicians have asked about infinity, one of the biggest has to do with its size.