A million-dollar math mystery may someday be resolved in a physics lab. A new study brings this vision one step closer.

Fields Medal 2026 winners Hong Wang, Yu Deng, John Pardon, and Jacob Tsimerman each solved problems that had stood open for ...

Mathematics is full of weird number systems that most people have never heard of and would have trouble even conceptualizing. But rational numbers are familiar. They’re the counting numbers and the ...

Two theoretical physicists – including a Nobel laureate – have solved a mathematical problem that flummoxed them for 10 years ...

In the late 1800s, when James Clerk Maxwell realised that light was an electromagnetic wave, his equations showed that light’s speed should be about 300,000 kilometres per second. This was close to ...

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The theory of thermodynamics has helped us understand devices like engines for more than 200 years, but its mathematical foundations have always been a little too imprecise. Now, researchers are ...

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"From my own knowledge of these things, physics is not something that girls tend to fancy. They don't want to do it … There's a lot of hard math in there that I think that they would rather not do," ...