An unknot (also known as the trivial knot) can be drawn with any number of crossings. Any possible manipulation of a knot diagram that does not fundamentally change the knot can be achieved by a ...

“Sleep is made up of many dimensions, not just how long we sleep,” wrote the researchers behind the project in a statement ...

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

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Alexis Ohanian, co-founder and CEO of Reddit, has gone on record about how the internet is now dead, and he's not the only ...

In 1992, three physicists began an argument about how many numbers we need to fully describe the universe. Their surprisingly ...

The New York writer and editor’s diaries of the AIDS era presents a curious case of what we are supposed to expect from ...

Scientists at Skoltech developed a new mathematical model of memory that explores how information is encoded and stored.

In a paper published in PNAS, a University of Michigan team proposes that fundamental principles of control theory and observability can be applied to study biological processes that change over time.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences recognized Howitt’s and Aghion’s research into forces that drive long-term economic ...

Both Covid-19 and systemic racism pose real life-or-death dangers. So why are so many people becoming preoccupied instead with threats that have no grounding in reality? It’s partly because of the ...

Discovery: An international team has discovered a dark object in the distant universe that has one million times the mass of ...