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

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

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

“Almost all other monogamous mammals either live in tight family units of just a breeding pair and their offspring, or in ...

Zero is definitively an even number, mathematicians confirm. The formal definition states an even number is any whole number ...

The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...

James W. Dearing ([email protected]) is a professor in the Department of Communication at Michigan State University, in East Lansing. Jeffrey G. Cox is a research associate in the Department of ...