At the frontiers of theoretical physics, many of the most popular ideas have one thing in common: they begin from a mathematical framework that seeks to explain more things than our currently ...

The Standard Model is far more than elementary particles arranged in a table. The Standard Model of particle physics is often visualized as a table, similar to the periodic table of elements, and used ...

A research group from the University of Osaka, Zen University, and the University of Tokyo has mathematically uncovered the ...

Many of the world's most important systems, such as the atmosphere, turbulent fluids, and even the motion of planets, behave ...

The back of a tiger could have been a blank canvas. Instead, nature painted the big cat with parallel stripes, evenly spaced and perpendicular to the spine. Scientists don't know exactly how stripes ...

This post originally appered in Business Insider. Mathematics is all around us, and it has shaped our understanding of the world in countless ways. 1) The Pythagorean theorem: This theorem is ...

Euler’s identity is an equality found in mathematics that has been compared to a Shakespearean sonnet and described as "the most beautiful equation." It is a special case of a foundational equation in ...

Most people think of history as a series of stories—tales of one army unexpectedly defeating another, or a politician making a memorable speech, or an upstart overthrowing a sitting monarch. Peter ...