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To better understand how neural networks learn to simulate writing, researchers trained simpler versions on synthetic children’s stories.

Modular forms are one of the most beautiful and mysterious objects in mathematics. What are they?

Every species develops at its own unique tempo, leaving scientists to wonder what governs their timing. A suite of new findings suggests that cells use basic metabolic processes as clocks.

The telescope conjecture gave mathematicians a handle on ways to map one sphere to another. Now that it has been disproved, the universe of shapes has exploded.

Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But recent James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance of the beasts.

By watching “minimal” cells regain the fitness they lost, researchers are testing whether a genome can be too simple to evolve.

New observations of a faraway rocky world that might have its own magnetic field could help astronomers understand the seemingly haphazard magnetic fields swaddling our solar system’s planets.

Genetic elements called Mavericks that have some viral features could be responsible for the large-scale smuggling of DNA between species.

Quantum algorithms can find their way out of mazes exponentially faster than classical ones, at the cost of forgetting the path they took. A new result suggests that the trade-off may be inevitable.