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What formula describes the farthest you can stack flat blocks over the edge of a table to form a seemingly gravity-defying half-bridge to nowhere?

An unexpected connection has emerged between the results of physics experiments and an important, seemingly unrelated set of numbers in pure mathematics.

The same problem that caused the 2007 financial crisis also tripped up the polling data ahead of this year’s presidential election.

So-called “analogue experiments” are becoming increasingly common in physics, but do they teach or mislead?

The results of this year’s presidential election made a mockery of analytical election forecast modelers.

Can a fluid analogue of a black hole point physicists toward the theory of quantum gravity, or is it a red herring?

At first, the biologist Richard Lenski thought his long-term experiment on evolution might last for 2,000 generations. Nearly three decades and over 65,000 generations later, he’s still amazed by evolution’s “awesome inventiveness.”

A new look at the reasons why organisms missing pairs of genes sometimes do much better than normal.

A new theory explains how fragile quantum states may be able to exist for hours or even days in our warm, wet brain. Experiments should soon test the idea.