A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a ...

A new argument explores how the growth of disorder could cause massive objects to move toward one another. Physicists are ...

Eric James Beyer is a science writer whose work explores the intersections of technology, the natural world, and human identity. He has written for Interesting Engineering, The Bosphorus Review ...

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Po-Shen Loh believes math education needs an overhaul. And he knows a thing or two about it—he’s resurrected the United States International Mathematical Olympiad team, leading it to four first-place… ...

The first major progress on the rectangular peg problem was made in a proof from the late-1970s by Herbert Vaughan. The proof initiated a new way of thinking about the geometry of a rectangle and ...

Francis Su discusses how the community of mathematicians tends to exclude certain people.

Throughout nature, throngs of relatively simple elements can self-organize into behaviors that seem unexpectedly complex. Scientists are beginning to understand… ...

Lee Smolin explores the problem of understanding the universe from the perspective of being inside the universe, as well as the need for physicists to know… ...

Emily Riehl is rewriting the foundations of higher category theory while also working to make mathematics more inclusive.