A new proof extends the work of the late Maryam Mirzakhani, cementing her legacy as a pioneer of alien mathematical realms.

By training machine learning models with examples of basic science, Miles Cranmer hopes to push the pace of scientific ...

Physicists and marine biologists built a quantitative framework that predicts how coral polyps collectively construct a ...

Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might help them reconcile gravity and quantum ...

Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can theoretically aid computation. They’re just now beginning to ...

Today’s AI largely lives in computers, but acting and reacting in the real world — that’s the realm of robots. In this week’s episode, co-host Steven Strogatz talks with pioneering roboticist Daniela ...

Using “refreshingly old” tools, mathematicians resolved a 50-year-old conjecture about how to categorize important functions called modular forms, with consequences for number theory and theoretical ...