Stories by Elise Cutts

Mathematicians have found a new kind of shape with connections to nature and art

Tricks to produce strange “ordered” ice could reveal new ice forms

Physicists found that the music of Johann Sebastian Bach contains mathematical patterns that help convey information

The Tsimane’ language divides the rainbow into blackish, reddish and whitish. But bilingual Spanish and Tsimane’ speakers are changing that

Researchers discovered that a heart-shaped molecule will jump in straight lines when given an electric jolt

Do try this at home

Physicists finally understand why heating a supercold quantum fluid freezes it into a solid

Bacteria with artificial hydrogel skeletons could be used as tiny robots

The strange phenomenon of quantum tunneling has been observed in a chemical reaction that defies classical physics

Millennia of a rodentlike animal’s urine preserve crucial data that could help scientists understand early humans’ leap forward

To protect from deadly drought and make it on land, plants developed complicated inner plumbing

Do sleeping spores dream of electric sheep?

Most of the pollutant arrives at the coasts by river