Climate science

The soil teems with billions of hidden microbes. Researchers have begun to catalog how these organisms are changing the world.

A conversation with the mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson on quantum electrodynamics, climate change and his latest pet project.

New data collected by mathematicians and oceanographers in the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean could dramatically improve climate models.

All complex correlated systems, from Arctic melt ponds to the Internet, appear to be governed by the same math as a random matrix.