A few weeks ago I was listening to one of my favorite radio shows, BBC Radio 4's In Our Time. It's about as adult-contemporary as a podcast gets: a roundtable of British academics talking about one ...

Two breakthroughs in mathematics could reshape how researchers understand symmetries in nature and the behavior of complex systems. These advances, led by Pham Tiep, a professor at Rutgers University, ...

Polynomial equations are a cornerstone of modern science, providing a mathematical basis for celestial mechanics, computer graphics, market growth predictions and much more. But although most high ...

How many atoms are there in the observable universe? Current estimates point to a number we would write as 1 followed by 80 zeroes, or 10 80. If you peered inside each of these atoms and counted their ...