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Topological effects might be hiding inside perfectly ordinary materials, waiting to reveal bizarre new particles or bolster quantum computing.

The potentially habitable world, called Ross 128b, circles a stable red dwarf that is not blasting out sterilizing radiation, as some other stars with Earth-like planets do.

Researchers say they can train computers to identify sexual orientation and criminality by scanning a person’s face. But critics say it’s bad science.

Ultrasonic energy can be harnessed to alter brain activity and treat disease — but first, scientists need to learn how it works.

Scientists from the Cracking the Glass collaboration have found a way to see molecular re-arrangements in deeply supercooled liquids, which ordinarily can take centuries or even millennia. Along the way, they have also found new physical properties of “aged” supercooled liquids and glasses.

With willpower and suitable financial means, you can start a science career at any age. Most doctoral students are in their 20s and 30s, but 8 percent are older than 45.

Candès, who holds the Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics at Stanford University, was named a 2017 MacArthur Fellow for "exploring the limits of signal recovery and matrix completion from incomplete data sets with implications for high-impact applications in multiple fields."

A look at the It from Qubit collaboration, which aims to find out if a subtle property of quantum information, measured by qubits, gives rise to the structure of space and gravity.

Mathematician Dusa McDuff explains why she loves the nonsqueezing theorem—and what vegetable she'd pair it with

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution.