Professors from NYU and the University of British Columbia have resolved the Kakeya set conjecture in three dimensions.

From undergraduate study to graduate, postdoctoral and faculty research, women within the Mellon College of Science’s Department of Mathematical Sciences are among those continuing the tradition of ...

An occasional series where Mongabay’s founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives, and story summaries.

Erwin Schrödinger, a theoretical physicist steeped in the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the Upanishads, delivered a series ...

China's top 10 scientific advances of 2024 have been unveiled, with the Chang'e-6 mission's returned lunar samples listed.

Though the edifices of Nalanda were largely reduced to mounds and the great monastery ceased to function in the early ...

BEIJING -- The National Natural Science Foundation of China released the country's top 10 scientific advances of 2024 during ...

Bayesian statistics in contemporary data science signify a paradigm revolution in probabilistic argumentation that provides ...

Birds do it, chimps do it, even monarch butterflies do it – and by paying more attention to how animals self-medicate, we can ...

DENVER (KDVR) — March 14 is commonly known as “Pi Day,” 3.14, and female broadcast meteorologists across the country are using the recognition of math and science as a day of visibility to ...

Consider a pencil lying on your desk. Try to spin it around so that it points once in every direction, but make sure it sweeps over as little of the desk’s surface as possible. You might twirl the ...