The math behind even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major ...

In this episode, we take a deeper look at whether education research can ever truly be neutral and what happens when ideology ...

A tool called AI-Newton can derive scientific laws from raw data, but is some way from developing human-like reasoning.

Even with quantum mechanics and relativity, physics can’t explain everything. Three problems — quantum gravity, dark matter, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly artificial neural networks, have proved to be highly promising tools for ...

I truly enjoy the physics of sports. The reason why it’s better to swing a tennis racket up to get the ball to go down, and why it’s better to ...

Medical parole, or compassionate release, is a mechanism for people with advanced illness in prison to be released because ...

In this week’s Elie v. U.S., The Nation’s justice correspondent digs into the fallout from the Democrats’ shutdown letdown. Plus: why the SNAP fight is far from over—and Kim Kardashian shouldn’t ...

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.