There’s a new book out this week, a biography of Roger Penrose by Patchen Barss, with the title The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the cost of genius. Penrose is one of the greatest ...

The Impossible Man,” by Patchen Barss, depicts the British mathematical physicist and Nobelist Sir Roger Penrose in all his ...

Her figures are in a state of unrelenting grief about what it means to be human and to feel powerless about so much that happens to ourselves and others.

Carbon is a gregarious little atom, bending over backwards to link with a wide variety of elements in what is collectively ...

Yet, after a multi-year closure—which included a change of ownership (the hotel is now owned by the Reuben Brothers) and a ...

Climate scientists often lack the information they need for their climate models. A master's student helped to find important ...

In 1896, German chemist Emil Fischer noted something very strange about a molecule named acetaldehyde phenylhydrazone.

Climate scientists often lack the information they need for their climate models. A master's student helped to find important ...

A maths professor shared a quiz on social media that begins with a drawing of a small triangle within another bigger triangle ...

Climate models are critical for scientists and policymakers in predicting what the future climate will be like. But climate models are no better than ...

Sweeping lines, large geometric shapes and violent contrasts of colour ... He realised that it was impossible to paint a ship in camouflage that would hide it from the sights of a submarine ...

Yale professor Sam Raskin led a team to prove the geometric Langlands conjecture, solving a major part of one of math’s most ...