The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard were recognized for their foundational work in quantum information science.

Off the coast of Japan, biologists netted a pea-size jellyfish with an unusual circadian clock — a chance finding that ...

The last decade has seen vast improvements in humanoid robots, but graduating to widespread use might require going back to the fundamentals. “Not reliably,” Hurst said. “I don’t think it’s totally ...

Marlowe Starling is a freelance science journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. She studied journalism and ecology at the University of Florida and has a master’s degree in science journalism from ...

Pushed down to a certain scale, the laws of physics seem to fall apart. Astrid Eichhorn, a leader in an area of study called ...

Every second, hundreds to thousands of molecules move through thousands of nuclear pores in each of your cells. A new ...

A canonical problem in computer science is to find the shortest route to every point in a network. A new approach beats the classic algorithm taught in textbooks.