In October 2015, a young mathematician named Clemens Sämann (opens a new tab) was flying home to Austria from a conference in Turin, Italy, when he had a chance encounter. He found himself seated ...

The universe’s accelerating expansion has long puzzled physicists. For decades, dark energy, an unseen force thought to make ...

I didn’t find math particularly exciting when I was in high school. To be honest, I only studied it when I went to university because it initially seemed quite easy to me. But in my very first math ...