Physics

The astrophysicist Janna Levin reflects on the newly unveiled, first-ever photograph of a black hole.

Astronomers will soon take their first glance at the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet. Sarah Hörst is writing the guidebook for these exoplanetary explorers, one that will reveal what a distinctive atmosphere says about the world underneath.

In a world seemingly filled with chaos, physicists have discovered new forms of synchronization and are learning how to predict and control them.

These games combine quantum entanglement, infinity and impossible-to-calculate winning probabilities. But if researchers can crack them, they’ll reveal deep mathematical secrets.

One of the first quantum simulators has produced a puzzling phenomenon: a row of atoms that repeatedly pops back into place.

During development, cells seem to decode their fate through optimal information processing, which could hint at a more general principle of life.

The latest AI algorithms are probing the evolution of galaxies, calculating quantum wave functions, discovering new chemical compounds and more. Is there anything that scientists do that can’t be automated?

Astronomers claim in a new paper that star motions should make it easy for civilizations to spread across the galaxy, but still we might find ourselves alone.

A two-player game can reveal whether the universe has an infinite amount of complexity.