Computer simulations help materials scientists and biochemists study the motion of macromolecules, advancing the development ...

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

Physicists are on the verge of potentially merging gravity with quantum physics, a significant breakthrough in the field. In a groundbreaking development, researchers are proposing a new approach to ...

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

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 ...

Isabel Rabey reviews Einstein’s Tutor: the Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics by Lee Philips ...