Karan Mahajan’s new novel, “The Complex,” tracks the fortunes of a political family in a rapidly changing India. By Jonathan Dee Jonathan Dee is the author of eight novels, most recently “Sugar Street ...

At the dawn of complex life, evolution created a container for DNA, its most treasured item. A few billion years later, 20th-century microscopists looked at this container — the nucleus — up close and ...

A giant virus discovered in Japan is adding fuel to the provocative idea that viruses helped create complex life. Named ushikuvirus, it infects amoebae and shows unique traits that connect different ...

A special set of numbers has formed the backbone of nuclear physics research for decades, and now we finally know how it arises from the quantum mix of nuclear particles and forces. Nearly 80 years ...

For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based directly on the interactions between their protons and neutrons. Published in ...

A century ago, the strange behavior of atoms and elementary particles led physicists to formulate a new theory of nature. That theory, quantum mechanics, found immediate success, proving its worth ...

In his laboratory at the University of Poitiers in France, Abderrazak El Albani contemplates the rock glittering in his hands. To the untrained eye, the specimen resembles a piece of golden tortellini ...

The world’s largest producer of flu vaccines is changing the way those shots, and potentially other medical products, are made. Companies traditionally dedicate an entire facility to one biologic ...

Join members of the Happy Volcano development team for a deep dive into the gameplay and creation of Modulus in this trailer for the upcoming creative factory automation game, where you design not ...

A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed something unique – the etchings, lines like tally marks, may have represented ...