Though they live only a few hours before dividing, bacteria can anticipate the approach of cold weather and prepare for it.

Astronomers are reveling in the James Webb Space Telescope’s discoveries about the formative epoch of cosmic history.

Zdeborová now leads the Statistical Physics of Computation Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne.

Invisibly to us, insects and other tiny creatures use static electricity to travel, avoid predators, collect pollen and more.

Across the social and biological sciences, statisticians use a technique that leverages randomness to deal with the unknown.

Three researchers have figured out how to craft a proof that spreads out information while keeping it perfectly secret.

A mysterious phenomenon known as duality often leads to new discoveries in physics. This time, space-time itself can ...

John von Neumann came about as close as humanly possible to embodying the Platonic ideal of a genius. Conversant in ancient Greek by age 6, the Hungarian made significant mathematical advances in his ...