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Physicists have described a system that requires an incomputable number to fully understand, another example of the provably unprovable puzzles of mathematics

This famous probability theory was intuitive, even obvious. It was also wrong.

Mathematicians have made lots of recent progress on a question called the Mordell conjecture, which was posed a century ago

Mathematics communicator and drag queen Kyne Santos guides you through the ongoing debate about what math really is.

Mathematician Gauss left behind a trophy case of mathematical achievements to highlight on his tombstone, but above all he wanted a regular heptadecagon etched on it

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the largest, most powerful particle accelerator ever built on Earth. Accelerating protons up to energies of ~7 TeV apiece — to energies about 7000 times greater…

The universe is expanding at an ever accelerating rate — and tiny wormholes that bore through the fabric of space-time might be to blame, a new study proposes.

More to the point: Where's the point? Recently I had to dig into the BigDecimal implementation to fix a reported bug. Every time I have to look at the BigDecimal code, it is a journey of rediscovery. I'm going to write down a few things to save me some time in the future.

A new technique reveals high-speed trajectories of oscillating vortices and shows that they are 10,000 times lighter than expected.

Cats twist and snakes slide, exploiting and negotiating physical laws. Scientists are figuring out how.

A new study by scientists from Japan explores the propagation of quantum information within interacting boson systems like Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), revealing the potential for accelerated transmission unlike previously thought.

White circle is the event horizon. Light trajectories are calculated using Hamiltonian mechanics. The Hamiltonian of a particle is the time component of its ...

For more than a decade it has been possible for physicists to accurately measure the location of individual atoms to a precision smaller than one-thousandth of a millimeter using a special type of microscope. However, this method has so far only provided the x and y coordinates. Information on the vertical position of the atom is lacking.

What constitutes protons? When I see pictures, I can't understand. Protons are made of quarks, but some say that they are made of 99% empty space. Also, in this illustration from Wikipedia, what's

Two researchers have improved a well-known technique for lattice basis reduction, opening up new avenues for practical experiments in cryptography and mathematics.

Until now computers have failed to solve mathematical problems. But the AI program AlphaGeometry has succeeded in finding proofs for dozens of theorems from the International Mathematical Olympiad

A new technique gives animators the flexibility to see how different mathematical functions deform complex 2D or 3D characters, and lets them choose the function that best fits their vision for the animation.

Modern physics is founded on 2 pillars: Einstein's gravity and quantum mechanics. But these 2 theories contradict each other. Does this theory reconcile them? The post Einstein's gravity and quantum mechanics united at last? first appeared on EarthSky.

Although there are four known fundamental forces to the Universe, there's only one that matters on the largest cosmic scales of all: gravitation. The other three fundamental forces: are all largely…