The math behind even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major ...

In this episode, we take a deeper look at whether education research can ever truly be neutral and what happens when ideology ...

A tool called AI-Newton can derive scientific laws from raw data, but is some way from developing human-like reasoning.

Even with quantum mechanics and relativity, physics can’t explain everything. Three problems — quantum gravity, dark matter, ...

I truly enjoy the physics of sports. The reason why it’s better to swing a tennis racket up to get the ball to go down, and why it’s better to ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly artificial neural networks, have proved to be highly promising tools for ...

Every year, 12 million people worldwide suffer a stroke; many die or are permanently impaired. Currently, drugs are ...

In this week’s Elie v. U.S., The Nation’s justice correspondent explains why justice would be better served if Kardashian just hired a criminal defense squad. Also: why the SNAP fight is far from over ...

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.

Particles as different as soap bubbles and ball bearings can be made to arrange themselves in exactly the same way, according to a new study that could unlock the creation of brand new materials — ...