Carbon dioxide’s powerful heat-trapping effect has been traced to a quirk of its quantum structure. The finding may explain climate change better than any computer model.

A new proof marks the first progress in decades on a problem about how order emerges from disorder.

You don’t need 0s and 1s to perform computations, and in some cases it’s better to avoid them.

Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences.

Cryptography is the thread that connects Julius Caesar, World War II and quantum computing, and it now lies under nearly every part of modern life. In this week’s episode, computer scientist Boaz Barak and co-host Janna Levin discuss the past and future of secrecy.

Experiments that test physics and philosophy "as a single whole" may be our only route to surefire knowledge about the universe.

By creating digital twins of patients, Amanda Randles wants to bring unprecedented precision to medical forecasts.

When seawater gets cold, it gets viscous. This fact could explain how single-celled ocean creatures became multicellular when the planet was frozen during “Snowball Earth,” according to experiments.

One of the quantum fields that fills the universe is special because its default value seems poised to eventually change, changing everything.