At high power, laser light inside a multimode optical fiber is supposed to misbehave. The beam usually breaks into a noisy, scattered pattern as the light ricochets through many paths at once.

Life moves in mysterious ways—and perhaps especially so for organisms that undergo dramatic shifts in levels of ...

Hours before starving bacteria begin assembling into visible structures, a deep-learning system built at Rice University can ...

BOSTON — Across traditions and centuries, contemplatives have described a similar inner movement: the ordinary sense of self loosens, the boundary between “me” and “everything else” grows permeable, ...

Movie comparing Myxococcus xanthus strains with different motility systems: wild type, impaired social motility and impaired adventurous motility. Time-lapse microscopy shows how self-organization ...

Veronica Beagle is the managing editor for Education at Forbes Advisor. She completed her master’s in English at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Before coming to Forbes Advisor she worked on ...