Hidden Fibonacci numbers, a new shape and the search for a grand unified theory of mathematics are among our choices for most ...

There are different ideas about how quantum computers could be built. But they all have one thing in common: you use a quantum physical system—for example, individual atoms—and change their state by ...

A previously unknown mathematical property has been found to be behind one of nature’s greatest mysteries – how ecosystems survive. A previously unknown mathematical property has been found to be ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Scientists have long used mathematics to describe the physical properties of the universe. But what if the universe itself is math? That's what cosmologist Max Tegmark believes. In ...

‘Another day's gone by and I didn't use algebra once.’ A philosophy of mathematics that connects it strongly with the real world gives a clearer insight into why everyone needs numeracy as well as ...

A sphere is a sphere, right? Yes, if you mean a globe or a beach ball – what mathematicians call a two-dimensional sphere – but not if you are talking about a sphere in seven dimensions. Now the ...

Max Tegmark's Our Mathematical Universe asks some big questions, including the very nature of existence itself--and explains all of them with math, arguing that everything around us is made out of it.

String theory attempts to unify all forces and particles in the universe using vibrating strings. It aims to explain the Standard Model of particle physics, which is incomplete. String theory predicts ...