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Space Solar revelations as Comet 3I/ATLAS rapidly brightens, a tiny tyrannosaur prompts T. rex rethink, and the unexpected ...

Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

Enter Proposition 50, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s bid to call the bluff. The measure would create five new Democratic-leaning ...

The standard interpretation of a null state, or empty state, posits it as devoid of structure. This paper introduces a ...

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this ...

Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. Later, ...

The math behind even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major ...

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His ...