Fanni Daniella Szakál is a marine biologist turned science writer. Her work has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, The Guardian, MIT Technology Review, and Hakai Magazine.

The mystery of the flipping foraminifera may conceal a rarely observed evolutionary process playing out across the planet.

Mathematicians at OpenAI showed that the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe how fluids flow, can sometimes “blow up.” ...

Hidden correspondences hint at a deeper structure to the mathematical universe. Our columnist unpacks one of those connections and asks mathematicians what they might mean.

By revisiting the famous problem — which was controversially solved in the 1970s with the help of computers — mathematicians ...