Gravity used to be the most down-to-earth of ideas, the thing that kept apples falling and planets in line. Now a growing ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...

A mathematical proof has finally debunked the idea that we live in a simulation, according to a group of international researchers. The theory that the universe could be a computer programme has been ...

"We have demonstrated that it is impossible to describe all aspects of physical reality using a computational theory of quantum gravity," says Dr. Faizal. "Therefore, no physically complete and ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The United States Mint (Mint) will begin the sale of the 2025 United States Mint Limited Edition Silver Proof Set ™ (product code 25RC) on Thursday, ...

How did we get here? Humanity, life on Earth, our planet itself—how did everything in the universe come into being? Well, as far as we know, it all started with the Big Bang. But while the Big Bang ...

This issue contains five papers from different events held in 2003 and 2002 that have been chosen by their program committees to be published in the JBCS in an extended and reviewed format. I would ...

The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new worlds for them to explore One of the biggest stories in science has been ...

Thomas Jefferson’s first draft of the Declaration of Independence read: “We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable . . . ” It was supposedly Benjamin Franklin who suggested instead announcing ...