In a recent paper, SFI Professor David Wolpert, SFI Fractal Faculty member Carlo Rovelli, and physicist Jordan Scharnhorst examine a longstanding, paradoxical thought experiment in statistical physics and cosmology known as the "Boltzmann brain" hypothesis—th…

In the quest for room-temperature superconductivity, international physicists have uncovered a link between magnetism and the pseudogap.

The Swarm Garden: An array of modular robot agents that adapt to changing conditions for living architecture.

Eyes on a face’s front or side enable a brain to perceive images. Fossil evidence suggests that two light-sensitive organs on top of ancient vertebrate heads generated images, too.

Look to the skies to see the jellyfish-shaped phenomenon.

Bask in modern luxury while taking in the cosmos at these astrotourism escapes.

Archaeologists from University College London and the Natural History Museum suggest the findings offer insights into the cognitive abilities of early human ancestors.

Don’t put your telescope away just yet. 2026 is bringing a lineup of meteor showers that might be worth losing a little sleep over.

Winter weather has forced the annual 2-day event which draws thousands to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences to be rescheduled to January 31 and February 1.

A team of researchers led by the University of Warwick has developed the first unified framework for detecting "spacetime fluctuations"—tiny, random distortions in the fabric of spacetime that appear in many attempts to unite quantum physics and gravity.

Newly developed mouse models that enable cell-specific analyses of proteostasis dynamics across the lifespan of the mice reveal key aspects of neuronal proteostasis with ageing.

Scientists propose one idea to explain it all from gravity to dark matter.

One-shot tissue dynamics reconstruction can infer changes in tissue composition over time, from single-time-point spatial proteomics of human cancers.

The symmetry, microscopy and spectroscopy signatures of altermagnetism are reviewed, and compared with traditional ferromagnetism and Néel antiferromagnetism, and magnetic phases with symmetry-protected compensated non-collinear spin orders.

Researchers at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have found that a key protein can help to regenerate neural stem cells, which may improve aging-associated decline in neuronal production of an aging brain.

Quantum interference of sodium nanoparticles, which can each contain more than 7,000 atoms at masses greater than 170,000 Da, is demonstrated.

With its attribution to Paranthropus, a 2.6-million-year-old partial mandible expands the range of the genus into the Afar region of Ethiopia and adds to our understanding of hominin evolution in eastern Africa.

Quantum technologies, systems that process, transfer or store information leveraging quantum mechanical effects, could tackle some real-world problems faster and more effectively than their classical counterparts. In recent years, some engineers have been foc…

A remote fossil site has revealed the largest dinosaur footprints ever documented, massive enough to dwarf a grown adult.

When Neanderthals in Italy were crossing the Alps, it's likely they took refuge in high-altitude bear caves. A new study of stone tools in Caverna Generosa, a cave sitting 1,450 meters up in the mountains, found that these travelers also brought a toolkit wit…

A pair of incredible images show the very moment that two different stars exploded, an incredible display that's melting our minds.

The Large Magellanic Cloud, or LMC, is a key spot for astronomers to study star formation.

Team aims to drill half-mile down into warming waters to gauge melt

In a recent study, researchers from China have developed a chip-scale LiDAR system that mimics the human eye's foveation by dynamically concentrating high-resolution sensing on regions of interest (ROIs) while maintaining broad awareness across the full field…

<p><em>Astronomers have observed the effects of a rapidly spinning black hole twisting the motion of matter around it, a result widely interpreted by cosmologists as consistent with a century-old prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. The find…