Buried deep in the ice in the Antarctic are "eyes" that can see elementary particles called neutrinos, and what they've ...

Turbulence is everywhere, from the swirl of smoke in air to the turbulent flows of gas in galaxies. Yet despite its ubiquity, ...

To do this, they introduced a novel mathematical object they call the space-time dimension field. This field acts as a kind ...

Quantum ideas describe particles and fields in tiny packages, but general relativity paints gravity as smooth curves in space‑time. Until now.

In a bold step toward solving one of science’s most puzzling problems, researchers have proposed a new way to bring gravity ...

In 1900, at the grand amphitheater of the Sorbonne in Paris, David Hilbert stood before a crowd of mathematicians and ...

For centuries, one of algebra’s oldest puzzles has remained unsolved—how to find exact answers for higher-degree polynomials, ...

A polynomial is a type of algebraic equation that involves variables raised to a non-negative power — for example, x² + 5x + ...

That year, French mathematician Évariste Galois finally illustrated why this was such a problem—the underlying mathematical ...

La Géométrie, a short appendix that appeared in Descartes’ famous Discourse on the Method, laid the foundations of analytic ...