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.

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

It’s surprisingly difficult to prove one of the most basic properties of a number: whether it can be written as a fraction. A ...

Learning a language can’t be that hard — every baby in the world manages to do it in a few years. Figuring out how the process works is another story. Linguists have devised elaborate theories to ...

Henry Carnell is an Oregon-based journalist covering tech, climate and science with a special emphasis on the LGBTQ community. His reporting has appeared in Mother Jones, the Washington ...

The security system that underlies the internet makes use of a curious fact: You can broadcast part of your encryption to make your information much more secure.