Ramanujan’s insights into pi are now guiding scientists toward a deeper understanding of how the universe works.

Physicists have long treated mass as a basic ingredient of nature, something particles simply possess, even as the Higgs ...

In] any piece of beautiful mathematics, you almost always find that there is a physical system which actually mirrors the ...

For most of the 20th century, physicists largely ignored living systems. They understood living things as machines, albeit ones made of gooey parts. A subfield called biophysics uncovered specific ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru have shown that the same mathematical structures embedded in Ramanujan’s work also appear in turbulence, percolation processes and ...

Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major ...

A new single-string method lets flat designs deploy into complex 3D structures, with potential uses in modular space habitats ...

A professor at the University of Cincinnati and his colleagues have figured out something two of America's most famous ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

A physicist has proposed a radical new theory of consciousness – and it could finally explain what happens when you die. Consciousness does not emerge from human brains, according to Professor Maria ...