IntroductionIn 1994, the computer scientist Peter Shor discovered that if quantum computers were ever invented, they would decimate much of the infrastructure used to...
IntroductionThis month, three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work proving one of the most counterintuitive yet consequential realities of the...
Fourteen years ago, the mathematicians Dusa McDuff and Felix Schlenk stumbled upon a hidden geometric garden that is only now beginning to flower. The...
Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal and K. Barry Sharpless have been awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of click chemistry and...
The physicists Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments that proved the profoundly strange...
The geneticist and evolutionary anthropologist Svante Pääbo has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering work in studies of...
Predicting complex systems like the weather is famously difficult. But at least the weather’s governing equations don’t change from one day to the next....