A new breakthrough pushes the limits of randomness, bringing a decades-old mathematical mystery closer to resolution ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Maria Chudnovsky reflects on her journey in graph theory, her groundbreaking solution to the long-standing perfect graph problem, and the unexpected ways this abstract field intersects with everyday ...

Whether a child is the firstborn, a middle child, the youngest, or an only child may affect how their family treats them, how much attention they receive, and how they may compete for their parents’ ...

Have you heard of the Dead Internet Theory? It’s been gaining traction on the site formerly known as Twitter, now X. What Is The Dead Internet Theory? The Dead Internet Theory is the belief that the ...

String theory began over 50 years ago as a way to understand the strong nuclear force. Since then, it’s grown to become a theory of everything, capable of explaining the nature of every particle, ...

Co-authored by Lotus Huyen Vu and Robert T. Muller, Ph.D. In 1994, Stephen Porges introduced the polyvagal theory, based on an evolutionary, neuropsychological understanding of the vagus nerve’s role ...

A theory never becomes a fact. It is an explanation of one or more facts. Many scientists, including the late Stephen Hawking, are happy to say that a theory never becomes a fact. It is always an ...