Pushed down to a certain scale, the laws of physics seem to fall apart. Astrid Eichhorn, a leader in an area of study called asymptotic safety, thinks we just need to push a little further.

Humans perceive aesthetic beauty in inanimate objects partly because the brain his highly attuned to pattern, explain our readers ...

You've probably seen it before at farmers' markets or at restaurants. It's what cauliflower would look like if you just swallowed a handful of magic mushrooms. With its mesmerizing vegetal fractals ...

Small in size but not in scope, the Nasher Museum of Art's exhibition celebrates Silvia Heyden and the influence that nature had on her work.

Almost everyone knows the line “no man is an island.” Most will have also encountered the moving words that soon follow: “never send to know for whom the bell tolls; / It tolls for thee.” But few ...

Deep canyons in the Andes are the perfect location to catch the most energetic particles in the universe. Carlos Argüelles-Delgado reveals how these intergalactic envoys could help prove the quantum n ...

Jacqueline Tabler emphasises the challenges of connecting molecular changes to tissue structure and highlights the potential of multifractal frameworks to quantify complex biological patterns, ...

A study reveals how the asexual Amazon molly defies evolutionary expectations — plus, evidence of what may be powering superluminous supernovae.

Look to the floor on your next forest walk and you may spot these vivid jewels among the leaf litter, says Ben Hoare.