The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ...

Rachel Nuwer is a freelance science journalist based in Brooklyn. Her latest book is I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World.

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His ...

Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important ...