The theory of evolution is dominated by the utilitarian logic of natural selection: adapt or die, survival of the fittest.

Ra'ad's debut novel, The Internet of Heaven, tells the story of a scientist named Sammy Hanna and his journey through ...

Supersymmetry, long considered the golden child of theoretical physics, has officially lost its luster at the world’s ...

NASA launched a new space telescope into orbit to explore the origins of the universe. The mission will use sophisticated ...

Studying interstellar molecules and comet chemistry sounds pretty niche—but the kind of work you do has huge implications ...

A new recipe for black holes could do away with central singularities, saving the laws of physics from troubling infinities.

Will Geiger estimates that he read about 10,000 college application essays over the course of a years-long career in college ...

Feedback, a Lego fan, delves into a new science-related set, and learns that the model of a DNA double helix is the wrong way around. Time for some jokes about mirror ...

Germinal centers are high-speed evolution machines. Tiny clusters in the lymph nodes, germinal centers refine antibodies through mutation and expansion until they produce high-affinity B cells adapted ...

In March 2009, the New York Times wrote a lengthy piece about renowned physicist Freeman Dyson, then 85. Four years earlier, ...

A new framework called METASCALE enables large language models (LLMs) to dynamically adapt their reasoning mode at inference time. This framework addresses one of LLMs’ shortcomings, which is using ...

University of Arizona researchers are among a group of scientists who hope to discover what happened immediately after the ...