For over two millennia, mathematicians agreed on one thing: you can’t use trigonometry to prove Pythagoras’ Theorem—because trigonometry is built on it. That logic, drilled into students and scholars ...

The first image of the Keyhole structure was acquired by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) HiRISE spacecraft in November with its smaller context camera (CTX). The image P14_006672_1836_XN_03N267W ...

It’s the theorem every mathematician believes in — yet no one can prove it. For decades, the brightest minds have tried and ...

Andrew Wiles devoted much of his career to proving Fermat's Last Theorem, a challenge that perplexed the best minds in mathematics for 300 years. In 1993, he made front-page headlines when he ...

Netflix’s new doc explores the 2023 death of Ajike Owens using and the stand your ground laws that continue to wreak havoc in U.S. neighborhoods.

A Honduran teenager and his family live in America’s new immigration landscape. By Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan The United States isn’t exceptional because of our common culture; it’s exceptional ...

Scientists have created human eggs in the lab using a similar process to the one used to clone the famous Dolly the sheep, then used in vitro fertilization (IVF) to turn them into embryos. Although ...

This contribution is part of the special series of Inaugural Articles by members of the National Academy of Sciences elected in 2017. Edited by Kenneth A. Ribet, University of California, Berkeley, CA ...