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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.

The past and the future are tightly linked in conventional quantum mechanics. Perhaps too tightly. A tweak to the theory could let quantum possibilities increase as space expands.

A comprehensive mathematical framework treats wrinkling patterns as elegant solutions to geometric problems.

A new atomic-scale experiment all but settles the origin of the strong form of superconductivity seen in cuprate crystals, confirming a 35-year-old theory.