In Proof, Catherine (Edebiri), the brilliant but restless daughter of renowned mathematics professor Robert (Cheadle), is thrust into turmoil when a notebook containing a revelatory Proof is ...

Working in secret for more than two years, a group of mathematicians has set out to resolve of the longest and most bitter ...

Learn how to prove that two triangles are congruent. Two or more triangles are said to be congruent if they have the same shape and size. There are many postulates and theorems to determine whether ...

A computer language created to spot errors in mathematical theorems has uncovered a fundamental error in a widely cited physics paper for the first time. The ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Scientists in Australia have demonstrated a prototype quantum battery that could revolutionize energy storage. By harnessing quantum effects, it can absorb energy in a rapid “super absorption” event, ...

Backed by Jeff Bezos, Danny Meyer and other savvy investors, Matias Muchnick’s NotCo has created alternatives for Coca-Cola, Kraft Heinz, Ferrero and more food giants. And the appetite for change is ...

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Uniquely, the team had access to 30-year-old blood samples from Victorian adults who were vaccinated against influenza back in 1994. The researchers used these to track how the immune system responds ...

What prompted you to try something new? “We understand, but how will it be asked in the test?” This is the question that was posed to me time and again in 2019 when I started lecturing a module in ...