Terry Loring, distinguished professor of mathematics and statistics, published and co-authored a new research piece involving his research on K-theory with the major advances in applications to ...

When identical charges repel each other but are confined to the surface of a sphere, they seek the arrangement with the ...

For thirty years the computer has been used by mathematicians to solve some problems. Automatic proving of theorems, proofs obtained with the aid of the computer for the theorems whose traditional ...

The course goal is to introduce students to the use of computing in mathematics to explore mathematical problems containing rich behaviors and including unsolved problems at the edge of research. The ...

AI may soon be the default way to solve theoretical problems in economics, high-energy physics, and other fields, MIT researchers tell WIRED.

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. The experimental setup. Cultured neurons grew ...

University of Chicago scientists have solved a 20-year-old puzzle in particle physics using data from an experiment conducted for an entirely different purpose. Physicists had long known that ...

Several years ago one of us, Toni, asked another of us, Marco, to come to his office at the Institute of Photonic Sciences, a large research center in Castelldefels near Barcelona. “There is a problem ...

Science, our quest to understand the world around us, stands on two pillars: theory, the construction of intellectually coherent logical systems; and experiment, the systematic interrogation of ...