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 ...

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

The Big Bang theory ... flat geometry, and perhaps even the current acceleration of the expansion of the universe, and does ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Madonna Yoder ’17 studied rocks at MIT. But her passion is for paper—with no scissors. Today, she’s a tessellation expert who ...