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Urmila Mahadev spent eight years in graduate school solving one of the most basic questions in quantum computation: How do you know whether a quantum computer has done anything quantum at all?

The new finding is challenging established theories of how planets come to be.

By using the power of evolution to solve practical problems, three researchers opened new avenues to chemical discovery.

Three researchers shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for advances in laser physics. The winners include a woman for the first time in 55 years.

The availability of 16 new mouse genomes will help accelerate research into the genetic underpinnings of human traits and diseases.

James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing ways to unleash the immune system more effectively against cancers.

By measuring mechanical forces inside an embryo for the first time, researchers have shown how a physical “jamming” mechanism assists development.

Paradoxically, the abundance of tight interactions among living species usually leads to disasters in ecological models. New analyses hint at how nature seemingly defies the math.

A new theory proposes that the quantum properties of an object extend into an “atmosphere” that surrounds the material.