The number 1729 may look ordinary, but a casual remark by Srinivasa Ramanujan turned it into a mathematical legend, symbolising insight, intuition, and the friendship that reshaped number theory ...

Mathematician Mikhail Ganzhinov found new records for kissing numbers in 10, 11, and 14 dimensions, proving human insight can ...

Two Caltech historians associated with the Einstein Papers Project have gathered together what they consider to be the most important of Einstein's ...

Brain cell signals travel along axons, the thin wire-like extensions of neurons, moving signals along the membrane in a pearl ...

In recent times, the Federal Ministry of Education has been coming up with some rather bold reforms for education in Nigeria.

As one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, a Nobel laureate whose insights reshaped fundamental understanding of ...

For more than 50 years, scientists have dreamed of seeing the hidden patterns that govern the motion of nonlinear waves—the ...

Researchers at the University of Queensland have made a microscopic ‘ocean’ on a silicon chip to miniaturise the study of ...

Morton Memorial Library, 82 Kelly St., Rhinecliff, will have a Halloween event on Wednesday, Oct. 29, from 4 to 5 p.m. Halloween stories will be read and Halloween cookies will be decorated. Costumes ...

Deep in the core of most galaxies, hidden by spinning clouds of gas and dust, black holes spin like cosmic engines. These giants — some are billions of times heavier than our sun — can shoot out ...

Tonika Lewis Johnson’s artwork includes the acclaimed Folded Map Project. She’s one of 22 new MacArthur Fellows, announced on ...