Elise Cutts

The Bonnet problem asks when just a bit of information is enough to uniquely identify a whole surface.

The discovery that tissues use electricity to expel unhealthy cells is part of a surge of renewed interest in the currents flowing through our bodies.

A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture.

An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math, and what it means to be a scientist.

Modern thinking machines owe their existence to insights from the physics of complex materials.

Astronomers are ready to search for the fingerprints of life in faraway planetary atmospheres. But first, they need to know where to look — and that means figuring out which planets are likely to have atmospheres in the first place.

Wherever astronomers look, they see life’s raw materials.

Making ice requires more than subzero temperatures. The unpredictable process takes microscopic scaffolding, random jiggling and often a little bit of bacteria.

Physicists and cosmologists will have a new probe of primordial processes when Europe launches the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) next decade.