During chemical reactions, atoms in the reacting substances break their bonds and re-arrange, forming different chemical ...

For years, strange red dots in James Webb images left scientists puzzled. New research shows they are young black holes ...

Individual mammalian cells contain billions of protein molecules, which must be synthesized, deployed, and removed with ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

Simply sign up to the US economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. What kind of holiday season will we have? If recent history is a guide, it will be K-shaped. The phrase “K-shaped” ...

Welcome to a place where geometry meets dread. In Save The Shapes, you’ll wander through a bizarre little house, uncovering its secrets room by room. The shapes that live here are vanishing one by one ...

To understand how Americans are faring economically these days, it's helpful to consider the eleventh letter of the alphabet. Experts describe the current U.S. economy as "K-shaped," a reference to ...

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...

After more than three centuries, a geometry problem that originated with a royal bet has been solved. Imagine you’re holding two equal-size dice. Is it possible to bore a tunnel through one die that’s ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...