Six mathematicians from the United States, Europe and Canada have emerged as leading contenders for the 2026 Fields Medal, ...

Scientists found exotic prime numbers may play a role in black hole physics, revealing a surprising connection between number theory and the extreme environments of the universe.

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The results reveal that our universe is reverberating with cosmic collisions. Some of the waves stem from pairs of black ...

Highly intelligent people often appear socially successful, but psychologically, many report feeling more isolated than their peers.

Science is messy business. Finding the truth is easier said than done.

Baez called for the development of new mathematics — he called it “green” math — to better capture the workings of Earth’s biosphere and climate. For his part, he sought to apply category theory, a ...

At research universities, academic freedom is a core value, essential for creativity, research productivity and trust.

A large longitudinal study challenges the idea that aging inevitably brings decline, revealing that many older adults improve in key measures of physical and cognitive health.

The catalogue of all the new 128 events observed by LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA from May 2023 to January 2024 is being published. It reveals an even greater variety of binary pairs producing gravitational ...

In the 20th-century statistics wars, Bayesians were underdogs. Now their methods may help speed treatments to market.

To enable more accurate estimation of connectivity, we propose a data-driven and theoretically grounded framework for optimally designing perturbation inputs, based on formulating the neural model as ...