Math and physics explain the anguish of a golf ball that zings around the rim of the hole instead of falling in.

Scientists at TU Wien found that electrons need specific “doorway states” to escape solids, not just energy. The insight ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

Why is There No Nobel Prize in Maths? The Nobel Prize is the world’s most prestigious award for fields like physics, chemistry, and medicine. But there is no Nobel Prize for Maths. This unique ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Quantum computing may prove to be an existential threat to Bitcoin, but human panic and slow preparation are bigger ...

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...