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Perfect black holes are versatile mathematical tools. Just don’t mistake them for the real thing.

Turbulence is everywhere, yet it is one of the most difficult concepts for physicists to understand.

People have known about magnets since ancient times, but the physics of ferromagnetism remains a mystery. Now a familiar puzzle is getting physicists closer to the answer.

Biologists have demonstrated for the first time that a controversial genetic engineering technology works, with caveats, in mammals.

The Brazilian mathematician Carolina Araujo, who calls herself “a bit of an anarchist,” is organizing meetings and building a support network to study and solve the problems women face in mathematics.

An analysis of lunar craters has found that we’ve been living in a relatively violent period in cosmic history.

A science fiction novelist and an internet commenter made breakthroughs on a longstanding problem about the number of ways you can arrange a set of items. What did they discover?

Subatomic particles called muons are thought to have streamed through the atmosphere and irradiated megafauna like the monster shark megalodon.

Emerging evidence suggests that the brain encodes abstract knowledge in the same way that it represents positions in space, which hints at a more universal theory of cognition.