A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical ...

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

Baez called for the development of new mathematics — he called it “green” math — to better capture the workings of Earth’s biosphere and climate. For his part, he sought to apply category theory, a ...

For 50 years, mathematicians have believed that the total number of real numbers is unknowable. A new proof suggests otherwise.