WHAT is consciousness? This is arguably the biggest remaining mystery of the human brain. No wonder it is known as “the hard problem”. We can’t even agree whether consciousness is one thing or a ...

I’m sure most people have been introduced to the concept of entropy, the notion the universe tends toward disorder over time and that the thermal motion of molecules swerves toward randomness without ...

For more than a century, scientists have treated chemistry as the master key to building new materials, tuning bonds and charges to coax atoms into useful patterns. A new wave of research is quietly ...