It began as a strange discovery buried in chaos theory — a mathematical pattern that seemed to predict real events before they happened. From climate shifts to stock market crashes, scientists now ...

A simple question about a spinning needle has haunted mathematicians for more than a century. It led to the Kakeya conjecture ...

The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper ...

Dan Shipper in Chain of Thought Last week I wrote that we’d be publishing a few excerpts from a book I’m writing about the worldview I’ve developed by writing, coding, and living with AI. Here’s the ...

Virtual particles may not be real, but they help physicists track how forces move, and allow for incredibly precise ...

Alexander Grothendieck was a titan in his field, making deep connections that fuelled a revolution in mathematics, before ...

This passage sums up both the mathematical undercurrent of the book and its distinctive narrative style. Best known for ...

Abstract: Onboard GNSS signal loss is a challenging issue for automated vehicles during driving in urban areas due to the effects of tall and dense buildings, flyovers, tunnels, and vegetation. To ...

An Ohio woman ordered Charlie Kirk’s go-to Starbucks drink on Sunday evening — and was startled to find a hateful message written on the cup. Autumn Perkins, who lives in Middletown, Ohio, visited a ...

In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research laid the foundation for modern knot theory, was trying to find a ...

Richard Osman has gushed over his wife Ingrid Oliver, as he admitted meeting her was 'the best thing that ever happened to me'. The author, 54, met the actress, 48, in 2021 when she appeared as a ...

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