Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

Why did Ramanujan’s formulae stay relevant for a century? His set of 17 expressions offered huge speed. They gave long digit ...

A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

In 1867, Lord Kelvin pictured atoms as tiny knots in an invisible medium called the ether. That picture turned out to be wrong, since atoms are built ...

Quantum theory and general relativity have long described the universe with incompatible languages, one speaking in ...

In 1919, a total solar eclipse offered the only chance to test Albert Einstein's radical new theory of gravity, General ...

When you think about the 'greatest human,' your mind probably jumps to a celebrity or maybe a sports hero, right? But history ...

Read how the human brain-arguably the most complex physical structure in the known universe-reflects the same archetypal ...

Rare cosmic explosions have earned an international award for an astrophysics collaboration led by an Oxford professor.

A detailed suite of simulations conducted by astrophysicists at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators showed that magnetic fields can produce black holes with masses that were previously ...

Movies have a knack for taking really complicated ideas and making them seem, well, almost understandable. When it comes to ...