Astrophysicist James Stone at the Institute for Advanced Study is seeking to understand central problems in astrophysics — how matter accretes and how stars form in the turbulent interstellar medium.

Shiz Aoki doesn’t know whether she considers herself an artist or a scientist. “I’ve always had an identity crisis,” she says. In high school, she struggled to find her crowd—she was enamored with ...

A report from Reuters claims that scientists in China have created a prototype of a machine that could eventually be used to produce semiconductor chips capable of powering artificial intelligence.

Scientists have dated the earliest-known fortified settlement built by humans, and they were stunned by the identity of its architects. The fortifications were first unearthed near the Amnya River in ...