A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical ...

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

For 50 years, mathematicians have believed that the total number of real numbers is unknowable. A new proof suggests otherwise.

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Using a relatively young theory, a team of mathematicians has started to answer questions whose roots lie at the very beginning of mathematics. Climate science is the most significant scientific ...

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107 and — wait for it — 47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If you’re stumped, you’re not alone. These are the first five busy ...

Two blind spots torture physicists: the birth of the universe and the center of a black hole. The former may feel like a moment in time and the latter a point in space, but in both cases the normally ...