A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His ...

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The rapidly growing field of research on chiral phonons is giving researchers new insights into the fundamental behaviors and structures of materials. The chirality of phonons could pave the way for ...

In this episode of The Big Recast, veteran casting director Doron Ofir explains the art of finding reality TV's elusive "it" ...

This fern was already known to be a hyperaccumulator, able to thrive in REE-rich soils in southern China by absorbing the metals. The researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry wanted to ...

When Malala Yousafzai went to college, the last thing she wanted to talk about was her Nobel Prize or the Taliban attack that ...

Background Unprecedented, forced displacement, especially from conflict and war areas, requires addressing resultant mental ...