The new model could be used to explore interventions aimed at reducing political polarisation. But the researchers say the ...

A bronze monument celebrating "formidable" 19th-century trailblazer Ada Lovelace is set to go up in the Midlands. The statue will be positioned outside North Warwickshire And South Leicestershire ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...

One of the biggest stories in science is quietly playing out in the world of abstract mathematics. Over the course of last year, researchers fulfilled a decades-old dream when they unveiled a proof of ...

Ananyo Bhattacharya is chief science writer at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences and the author of The Man from the Future: The Visionary Ideas of John von Neumann. One of the biggest ...

General relativity, Einstein's theory of gravity, is a purely classical theory that describes gravity as the warping of space-time geometry by mass and energy. But attempts to blend quantum theory ...

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It’s one of the most common complaints about teacher professional development: The programming that districts put together doesn’t actually address the instructional challenges that vex teachers the ...

For centuries, the concept of infinity has captivated mathematicians and philosophers alike, stretching far beyond the simple idea of endless counting. Recent groundbreaking discoveries, however, have ...

for all infinite sets X X and Y Y. Proving this required most of the concepts and results from the second half of the course: well ordered sets, the Cantor–Bernstein theorem, the Hartogs theorem, Zorn ...