Physicists are quietly testing an audacious idea: that the mass of everything around us might not come from an invisible ...

While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...

Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

Ramanujan’s insights into pi are now guiding scientists toward a deeper understanding of how the universe works.

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

Math scores in the U.S. have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

A team from UNIGE and the University of Pisa has designed surprisingly stable molecular assemblies, paving the way for new drug configurations and materials with controlled geometry. Mirror molecules ...