A recipient of his profession’s prestigious Fields Medal, he devised an algorithm that helps solve mathematical ...

Gerd Faltings shocked mathematicians around the world for his 1983 proof of the Mordell conjecture, which brought together ...

In a dark room, in the middle of the night, a woman lies dreaming. Suddenly, her eyes beneath their lids dart crisply left-right, left-right. The eye signal means she knows she’s dreaming. Lucid ...

In 2019, Monte Leifheit, a warehouse operator at 3M, noticed his left eye was bloodshot and swollen. What began as a minor irritation turned into a yearlong medical odyssey marked by the lack of a ...

A mysterious spike of platinum buried deep in Greenland’s ice has long fueled theories of a catastrophic comet or asteroid ...

Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and ...

The familiar phenomenon has puzzled researchers for centuries, but experiments are finally making sense of its unruly ...

Chemists have developed a light-driven method for producing a rare and highly strained molecular structure known as “housane.” Designing a new drug often starts with a basic but difficult task: making ...

David Cutler is in the spotlight for his work on a tasty-sounding mathematics problem. In January, the New York Times featured a research paper authored by Cutler and Neil Sloane, the founder of The ...

OpenAI has added interactive visual explanations to ChatGPT, providing math and science learners with dynamic, step-by-step tools rather than static text.

After years of creating highly specialized software, researchers used supercomputer clusters to finally solve the ...