Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go ...

One computer scientist’s “stunning” proof is the first progress in 50 years on one of the most famous questions in computer ...

Mathematicians soon hypothesized that as your set gets bigger, the biggest sum-free subsets will get much larger than N /3.

Changes in the number, shape, efficiency and interconnectedness of organelles in the cells of flight muscles provide extra ...

Turbulence is a notoriously difficult phenomenon to study. Mathematicians are now starting to untangle it at its smallest ...

From living matter to molecules to elementary particles, the world is made of “chiral” objects that differ from their ...

Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future.