Natalie Wolchover

In the drive to safeguard data from future quantum computers, cryptographers have stumbled upon a thin red line between security and efficiency.

Explore the deepest mysteries at the frontier of fundamental physics, and the most promising ideas put forth to solve them.

A 115-year effort to bridge the particle and fluid descriptions of nature has led mathematicians to an unexpected answer.

At super-low temperatures, a crystal called samarium hexaboride behaves in an unexplained, imagination-stretching way.

Three physicists have proposed a new solution to one of the deepest mysteries in particle physics: why the Higgs boson has such a tiny mass.

Physicists are beginning to unravel the mysteries of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, particles accelerated by the most powerful forces in the universe.

Computer scientist Stuart Russell wants to ensure that our increasingly intelligent machines remain aligned with human values.

A statistical anomaly in the signal from rare particle decays at the Large Hadron Collider offers hope that new discoveries might be around the corner.

Nature has revealed peculiar mathematical objects that connect order and chaos.