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Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within the head.

A series of observations at the very edge of the universe has reignited a debate over what lifted the primordial cosmic fog.

Time isn’t just another dimension, argues Tim Maudlin. To make his case, he’s had to reinvent geometry.

A new paper claims that a common digital security system could be tweaked to withstand attacks even from a powerful quantum computer.

Answering three questions can help reveal how the “inheritance of acquired characteristics” fits into modern evolutionary theory.

A system of seven Earth-like exoplanets appeared to be unstable. Now their orbits have been rewritten in the music of the spheres.

The proteins that unravel as the temperature starts to rise turn out to be among the most vital.

The new experiments suggest that simple models can explain the behavior of thousands of interacting organisms.

As physicists extend the 19th-century laws of thermodynamics to the quantum realm, they’re rewriting the relationships among energy, entropy and information.