Whenever someone talks about black holes, they almost always talk about the event horizon and the singularity. After all, ...

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

A question that has vexed physicists for the past century may finally have a solution – but perhaps not the one everyone was ...

Big Pink stands in a part of Multnomah County with lots of overlapping tax levies, including three that pay for Portland ...

The number 1729 may look ordinary, but a casual remark by Srinivasa Ramanujan turned it into a mathematical legend, symbolising insight, intuition, and the friendship that reshaped number theory ...

Japanese physicists have revived Kelvin’s old idea of cosmic knots, showing how these tangled fields might explain why matter ...

There are many purposes that spots and stripes serve in nature, but how they form has been more of a mystery to scientists.

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

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

Two decades ago, the mathematician Moon Duchin spent her summers teaching geometry at Mathcamp, a program for mathematically ...

Kobe University researchers have unveiled an interactive web application that transforms the abstract concepts ...

The oldest in the nation is the RRSP, birthed after WW2 to encourage retirement savings. The idea is simple: if you ...