In a problem that entertained the strollers of an East Prussian city the great mathematician saw an important principle of the branch of mathematics called topology ...

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“One thing that this article is showing is that we are very seasonal creatures,” says Georgetown University School of ...

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

The missing number is 1,620. The digits in the tens places (green in the figure below) of the numbers in columns 1, 2, 4 and 5 are added together. The total value is represented by the digits in the ...

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Three scientists are honored for developing a class of blockbuster weight-loss drugs. Is a Nobel prize on the way?

A long-awaited calculation of the W boson’s mass agrees with theory, contradicting a previous anomaly that had raised the ...

In the U.S. in the early 1960s the distributor of a thalidomide drug was impatient to get it on the market. But FDA medical ...

Math’s “best-choice problem” could help humans become better decision-makers, at everything from choosing the best job ...

Neuroscientists at the University of Barcelona set about on a search for brain areas involved in chess-related tasks so that ...