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Carpenter ants need endosymbiotic bacteria to guide the early development of their embryos. New work has reconstructed how this deep partnership evolved.

Cosmologists have concluded that the universe doesn’t appear to clump as much as it should. Could both of cosmology’s big puzzles share a single fix?

Having solved a central mystery about the “twirliness” of tornadoes and other types of vortices, William Irvine has set his sights on turbulence, the white whale of classical physics.

Emily Riehl is rewriting the foundations of higher category theory while also working to make mathematics more inclusive.

Recent major surveys show that reductions in genomic complexity — including the loss of key genes — have successfully shaped the evolution of life throughout history.

Three mathematicians have resolved a fundamental question about straight paths on the 12-sided Platonic solid.

AI tools are shaping next-generation theorem provers, and with them the relationship between math and machine.

A powerful technique called SAT solving could work on the notorious Collatz conjecture. But it’s a long shot.

Push or crush a new class of materials, and they’ll undergo record-breaking temperature changes.