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Black physicists say efforts to recruit and retain more Black students must concentrate on challenges they face at both Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Primarily White Institutions.

Optical lens advancement has long been regarded as a significant indicator of human scientific progress. Eyeglasses, cameras, telescopes, and microscopes have all enabled to see the world in a new light, both literally and metaphorically.

Join us as we celebrate a decade of collaboration and discovery at the Simons Institute! Our 10th Anniversary Symposium will highlight key research results in the theory of computing during the last ten years, and contemplate research directions for the decade to come. Established on July 1, 2012 with a generous ten-year grant from the Simons Foundation, the Simons Institute

Emily Witt is an associate professor of mathematics

A $56M gift is being directed toward helping train the next generation of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics leaders

Meet Quanta Magazine, which won ‘for coverage that revealed the complexities of building the James Webb Space Telescope’

Genes contain all the instructions an organism needs to live, grow, and reproduce. But identifying a gene and learning what it does are two different things. Scientists don’t know what kinds of instructions many genes contain— their functions are unknown.

Einstein’s description of curved space-time doesn’t easily mesh with a universe made up of quantum wavefunctions. Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll discusses the quest for quantum gravity with host Steven Strogatz.

Clusters of microscopic bacteria exist all around us. These invisible communities, known as biofilms, are found in habitats ranging from our skin surface

Hey moms: When your teens don't seem to hear you, it's not that they don't want to clean their room. It's just their brains tuning you out.