On a set of broken clay bowls from northern Mesopotamia, delicate flower patterns have turned out to be something far more radical than decoration. New analysis of this ancient art suggests that early ...

Contemporary physics has learned to describe the universe with unprecedented precision. Yet when it tries to say what time is, it stumbles again and ...

Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones ...

Three artists, three questions, and a shared urge to find order in chaos through repetition, light, and form. Common ...

On opening night of the seminal musical’s local tour stop, presented by Broadway Dallas, one could sense the mood shifting as ...

AlphaFold didn't accelerate biology by running faster experiments. It changed the engineering assumptions behind protein ...

The NovaSeq X Plus is a half-ton machine that looks like an industrial freezer, with a big touchscreen on top and racks to hold cartridges of chemicals below. Its job is to simultaneously sequence 128 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- State senators advanced a bill that would require students in grades 6-12 to learn a three-pronged theory that states that people who complete at least a high school education, work ...

It may be an American classic, but there’s a good chance that you don’t actually know what’s in this processed cheese. Here’s a fun bit of food facts trivia that’s sure to amaze: Every week, more than ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

Predator: Badlands has shared its first 15 minutes with fans at San Diego Comic-Con. And this is one opening sequence that does not mess around. We at Nerdist were privileged to experience this early ...