Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has ...

A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be created in exotic materials.

The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language.

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...

When pigeons outnumber pigeonholes, some birds must double up. This obvious statement — and its inverse — have deep ...

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico ...

A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be created in exotic materials. Heat Destroys All Order. Except for in This One Special Case. Heat is ...

A popular hypothesis for how the brain clears molecular waste, which may help explain why sleep feels refreshing, is a subject of debate. Encased in the skull, perched atop the spine, the brain has a ...