Scientists have discovered a mysterious pattern that somehow connects a bus system in Mexico and chicken eyes to quantum physics and number theory.
Richard Dawid discusses the fine line between science and speculation.
Christoph Adami explains how information theory can explain the persistence of life.
Joan Strassmann explains the benefits of studying social amoebas.
Gabriela González explains how to measure black-hole collisions using gravitational waves.
David Kaplan explains why a simple definition of ‘species’ is hard to come by.
Nima Arkani-Hamed makes his “big-picture” case for building a 100-TeV particle collider.
Nancy Moran explains how colony collapse disorder led her to study the bacteria that live in the guts of bees.
James Bullock explains why dark matter might be more complicated than astronomers have assumed.
David Kaplan explains how the search for hidden symmetries leads to discoveries like the Higgs boson.