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This network physicist is mapping the world's most significant data to create the most beautiful visualizations of information we have ever seen.

It's not just the language of love.

There's an extra source of massive "stuff" in our Universe beyond what gravitation and normal matter can explain. Could light be the answer?

The whole isn't greater than the sum of its parts; that's a flaw in our thinking. Non-reductionism requires magic, not merely science.

Lab experiments showed Caribbean box jellyfish are quick studies of their environment.

When you bring two fingers together, you can feel them "touch" each other. But are your atoms really touching, and if so, how?

“All the plausible paths to a really great future, involve the development of machine superintelligence at some point.”

Protein fibrils accumulate in the brain during neurodegeneration. Cryo-electron microscopy has now uncovered fibrils of an unexpected protein.

Artificial intelligence can forecast the behavior of viruses and quickly make vaccines to thwart them.

JWST has brought us more distant views of the early Universe than ever before. Is the Big Bang, and all of modern cosmology, in trouble?

In the Saudi Arabian desert, the Al Naslaa rock formation looks completely unnatural. Its perfectly vertical split remains a mystery.

Children who have a brain hemisphere removed — a procedure known as hemispherectomy — behave completely normally.

How are we to deal with the quantization of spacetime and gravity?

If you said "with the Big Bang," congratulations: that was our best answer as of ~1979. Here's what we've learned in all the time since.

Once water gets more than about 200 feet deep, building on the sea floor is out of the question.

There may be a symmetrical interdependence between order and chaos.

Einstein's relativity overthrew the notion of absolute space and time, replacing them with a spacetime fabric. But is spacetime truly real?

Every organization has a power block of dutiful but unappreciated talent. Here’s an effective plan for engagement.

Clever girl.

The "subarachnoidal lymphatic-like membrane" helps shield and protect the brain.

Some solar cells are so lightweight they can sit on a soap bubble.

On the largest scales, galaxies don't simply clump together, but form superclusters. Too bad they don't remain bound together.

No matter what physical system we consider, nature always obeys the same fundamental laws. Must it be this way, and if so, why?

2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.

Long thought incapable of regenerating, we now know that brain cells can grow and reorganize. That, it turns out, is a mixed blessing.

A next-generation instrument on a delayed rover may be the key to answering the question of life on Mars.

Which is good, because if they do, they violate the cosmological principle. In theory, the Universe should be the same, on average, everywhere. A simulation of the large-scale structure of […]

The best evidence for dark matter is astrophysical and indirect. Do new lensing observations point to ultra-light, wave-like dark matter?

In a far-reaching discovery with astrophysicist Karolina Garcia, we discuss what's in the Universe and how it grew up.

This network scientist is creating a map of the human genome, and it could revolutionize the future of healthcare.