It took a long time for zero to be recognised as a number at all, let alone one of the most powerful ones – but now it’s ...

How many coins can touch one coin, or how many basketballs can "kiss" one basketball at the same time? This seemingly playful ...

Researchers at Forschungszentrum Jülich, together with international collaborators, have demonstrated for the first time that ...

As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...

Rule 3 tells us to construct our abode of thought with the same care as when constructing a house, such that stability ...

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

There has been growing interest in the adoption of complex systems approaches to tackle major public health challenges such as obesity. This perspective redirects focus from individually oriented and ...