The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

Every cell in your body contains the same genetic sequence, yet each cell expresses only a subset of those genes. These cell-specific gene expression patterns, which ensure that a brain cell is ...

Using a servo-controlled truss, a unique 3D surface can dynamically transition between absorption, reflection, and ...

A robot hand powered by lab-grown muscles is challenging you to a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors – do you accept? Here’s ...

A Bloomberg analysis of the major hedge funds’ regulatory filings shows their passthrough fees have exploded in recent years.

Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 ...

For all the world’s linguistic diversity, human languages still obey some universal patterns. These run even deeper than ...

Ringgold’s painting was not. It was Barbara Drummond, a correctional officer and a former volunteer at the Schomburg Center ...

Scientists say Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck—dramatic trenches near the lunar south pole—were carved in a blast that ...

This paper addresses the important question of quantifying epistasis patterns, which affect the predictability of evolution, by reanalyzing a recently published combinatorial deep mutational scan ...

Entanglement—linking distant particles or groups of particles so that one cannot be described without the other—is at the ...

The political analyst Yuval Levin discusses Trump’s first few weeks in office and the limits of presidential power.