A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical ...

In less than a year, eight prominent mathematicians have moved to work in Asia, most of them from the United States.

AIP and APS are honored to award Charles Thorn with the 2026 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics. Thorn is being ...

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger developed quantum theory’s wave equation, which describes quantum systems as waves that ...

What begins as a simple puzzle about colored bead necklaces quickly reveals a powerful mathematical pattern. By exploring rotations, symmetry, and prime numbers, this story leads to one of the ...

Details from the Nancy Guthrie investigation have been so scarce that it’s hard to believe we will ever find out what ...

Rothbard’s views on nations by consent are once again in the limelight. Libertarians who ignore the nationality question and ...

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller natural numbers. They can only be divided by themselves and 1. And in a new ...

Physicist who won a Nobel prize for his work on superfluids and superconductors at Sussex University in the 1970s ...

After outgrowing its original home, the National Museum of Mathematics has added new exhibits and an art gallery space in ...

Black holes "are surely governed by some beautiful structures." The post Scientists Say Something Bizarre Is Hiding Inside ...