Mathematics

High up in Chile’s Atacama Desert, miles away from the dull glow of light pollution, the secluded Atacama Cosmology…

Scientists Hillel Furstenberg and Gregory Margulis have won this year’s Abel Prize, which is considered one of the…

You enter a cave. At the end of a dark corridor, you encounter a pair of sealed chambers. Inside each chamber is an…

China has been using an equation to produce fake organ donation data, according to researchers who used a forensic…

Just on the heels of finding three cubed numbers that sum to 42, scientists have passed another important milestone…

We all know that 42 is the answer to life, the universe, and everything, thanks to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the…

Trailblazing mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck from the University of Texas at Austin has been awarded the 2019 Abel…

There are six outstanding math problems that, if solved, will net you a $1 million reward. On Monday, a highly…

Mathematician Kokichi Sugihara, of Meiji University in Japan, once again proves he’s the greatest illusion inventor…

For decades, scientists have debated the cause of the popping sound when we crack our knuckles. Using computer…

Using a computer powered by an off-the-shelf Intel Core i5-6600 processor, a FedEx employee from Tennessee has…

It can be easy to take hyped-up science papers as fact, especially when they involve the most esoteric imaginable…

We wouldn’t blame you for thinking that Julius Horsthuis spent weeks designing and animating his sci-fi short, Frakta…

Some numbers don’t change. These values are deeply connected to the very fabric of the Universe and our human…

Even if you don’t know much physics, you probably know one of its core tenets: an object at rest stays at rest, and…

The number zero is something we all take for granted, yet its conceptual origin has eluded archaeologists and…

A popular chess problem known as the Queen’s Puzzle has captivated mathematicians and computer scientists for years,…

Australian scientists have managed to crack the code of a mysterious 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet,…

In Julius Horsthuis’ short film Recurrence, he takes the audience on a slow descent into a sprawling metropolis he’s…

You are very lucky that you ended up about the size that you are today, somewhere between one and ten feet tall and…