A 100-year-old equation helps scientists build solar cells, develop biofuels and even study quantum computers.

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"It's no exaggeration to say that the greatest minds of the entire human race have made proposals for this grand final theory of everything," says theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. This theory, also ...

When water seeps through sand, air rises over a warm pavement, or tea swirls in a stirred cup, one family of equations explains the behaviour of all three. Those equations underpin weather forecasts, ...

Artificial intelligence has managed to solve a fluid mechanics equation that stumped human experts for nine decades, doing so in just 88 hours. What initially appeared to be a triumph for modern ...

Nearly 200 years ago, Claude-Louis Navier and George Gabriel Stokes sought to describe the chaotic motion of fluids mathematically, writing down equations that are still routinely used by everyone ...

NYU mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster announced three proofs on Tuesday with a preliminary finding on one of the major unsolved problems in theoretical mathematics. The findings, made in ...