Abstractions blog

Digital security depends on the difficulty of factoring large numbers. A new proof shows why one method for breaking digital encryption won’t work.

Neither animal, plant, fungus nor familiar protozoan, a strange microbe that sits in its own “supra-kingdom” of life foretells incredible biodiversity yet to be discovered by new sequencing technologies.

The renowned physicist Leonard Susskind has identified a possible quantum origin for the ever-growing volume of black holes.

As it becomes clear that the body’s cells have more diverse regenerative capabilities than expected, experts have had to reconsider their approach to stem cell research.

Alexander Smith’s work on the Goldfeld conjecture reveals fundamental characteristics of elliptic curves.

Evidence for life in 3.7-billion-year-old rocks appears to be crumbling away.

By using the power of evolution to solve practical problems, three researchers opened new avenues to chemical discovery.

Three researchers shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for advances in laser physics. The winners include a woman for the first time in 55 years.

The availability of 16 new mouse genomes will help accelerate research into the genetic underpinnings of human traits and diseases.