Individual cells in the brain light up for specific ideas. These concept neurons, once known as “Jennifer Aniston cells,” ...

A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem. Getting there meant ...

Heat is supposed to ruin anything it touches. But physicists have shown that an idealized form of magnetism is heatproof.

Cells in our bodies are constantly dying — and these countless tiny deaths are essential to human health and multicellular life itself. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with cellular ...

Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, ...

Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to ...

Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to understand. Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli brings to the problem a perspective ...