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Perhaps chemistry played a more instrumental role in the origin of life than scientists thought.

Ripples in space-time have been detected a century after Einstein predicted them, launching a new era in astronomy.

In a geometrically designed social club, how do dancing, triangles and hexagons mix?

Searching for signs of life on faraway planets, astrobiologists must decide which telltale biosignature gases to target.

The solution to this month’s puzzle gets to the bottom of the famously ambiguous Sleeping Beauty probability problem.

The biological world is computational at its core, argues computer scientist Leslie Valiant.

The same brain cells that track location in space appear to also count beats in time. The research suggests that our thoughts may take place on a mental space-time canvas.

The physicist Subir Sachdev borrows tools from string theory to understand the puzzling behavior of high-temperature superconductors.

Bizarre quantum bonds connect distinct moments in time, suggesting that quantum links — not space-time — constitute the fundamental structure of the universe.