Genius Grant” honoree Rebecca Newberger Goldstein talks about her new book on “the mattering instinct,” a concept that’s surprisingly essential to individuals and societies.

Systematic human inspection of the millions of source cutouts in the Hubble Legacy Archive is impossible – but artificial ...

A team of theoretical researchers has found duality can unveil non-invertible symmetry protected topological phases, which can lead to researchers understanding more about the properties of these ...

A schematic illustrating how duality maps Non-Invertible Symmetry-Protected Topological (NISTP) phases to Spontaneously Symmetry Broken (SSB) phases of ordinary group symmetries. A team of theoretical ...

Jonathan Kwan (@migrationethics) is the Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow in Immigration Ethics with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. What term should we use to ...

In condensed matter physics, analysis of symmetries is a fundamental theoretical technique used to classify phases of matter, constrain effective Hamiltonians, and predict emergent phenomena ...

Days later, it still stings. Alex Bregman’s agreement with the Cubs on Saturday night represented a twofold blow to the Red Sox organization and its fans. Foremost, the team lost a two-time champion ...

The driver expects a routine tow after a minor accident. Police instead classify the vehicle as a safety hazard and order an immediate removal. Pricing and timing become irrelevant once enforcement ...

For decades, old-school rankings and classic classifications have helped define what excellence looks like in higher education. However, in doing so, they’ve narrowed the nation’s vision. We can do ...

The project that is the subject of this report was supported by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Justice Programs, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, via a grant from the National ...