For the first time, researchers have seen how light behaves during a mysterious phenomenon called 'imaginary time'.

Ken Ono, a top mathematician and advisor at the University of Virginia, has helped uncover a striking new way to find prime numbers—those puzzling building blocks of arithmetic that have kept ...

If you managed to find the number in less than 10 seconds, you definitely can call yourself the ‘puzzlemaster.’ If not, well, there’s always more brain teasers to solve. FAQs ...

A seemingly simple math problem has gone viral this week, leaving people totally stumped on social media. The equation in questions is: 15 - 15 × 4 ÷ 2 = ? At first glance, it looks like a basic ...

Prime numbers, those integers divisible only by one and themselves, have fascinated mathematicians for millennia. Their ...

Enrique Rico Ortega and Sofia Vallecorsa explain how quantum computing will allow physicists to model complex dynamics, from ...

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(NASA, ESA, CSA, Leah Hustak (STScI)/Public Domain) Imaginary numbers are mathematically convenient tools for solving equations that describe physical phenomena. Handy as they are, they're as abstract ...

The problem is so confusing that even its proposed solution, the Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory (IUT), has been difficult for experts to understand. Recently, an expert published his understanding ...

Very little in this life is truly random. A coin flip is influenced by the flipper’s force, its surrounding airflow, and gravity. Similar variables dictate rolling a pair of dice or shuffling a deck ...

Some numbers are so unimaginably large that they defy the bounds of modern mathematics, and now mathematicians are closing in ...