The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A few centuries ago, the swirling polychromatic chaos of Jupiter’s atmosphere spawned the immense vortex that we call the Great Red Spot ...

Living organisms, our planet and even the entire universe are getting ever more complex with time. “Complex” doesn’t just mean “complicated”: it means that the parts of a system interact in ways that ...

Fiber-optic internet is coming to our neighborhood. Wires have been run, boxes and junctions are in the ground and it seems all that is left is to throw the switch. This has been a long process ...