A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

For more than a century, gravity has been the stubborn outlier in physics, perfectly described on cosmic scales yet refusing to mesh with the quantum rules that govern everything else. A growing camp ...

Physicists have chased a unified description of nature for more than a century, yet quantum theory and gravity have ...

If you’ve ever watched a flapping insect or hummingbird hover in place – often while engaged in other activities such as ...

Boiling sea of quarks and gluons, including virtual ones – this is how we can imagine the main phase of high-energy proton ...

By combining the language of groups with that of geometry and linear algebra, Marius Sophus Lie created one of math’s most ...