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Find a string. Really. Do it. Now twist, tie and tangle it as much as you like. Finally, attach the two loose ends of your string…

The good, the bad, and the ugly sides of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and Europe were in focus in a day 2 keynote at the fifth edition…

September 2, 20252 min readNew Knot Theory Discovery Overturns Long-Held Mathematical AssumptionMathematicians have unraveled a key conjecture about knot theoryBy Max Springer edited by Sarah Lewin…

If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to…

“We mostly believe that all the conjectures are true, but it’s so exciting to see it actually realized,” said Ana Caraiani, a mathematician at Imperial College…

One of the biggest stories in science is quietly playing out in the world of abstract mathematics. Over the course of last year, researchers fulfilled a…

So first up guys, we’re six months into the Trump administration. So I want to know your mood – hit me. Yeah I mean, it’s a disaster.…

It’s 2004 and on a Saturday night in Miami, jet-set East Coast power players are packed into a star-studded party thrown by hip-hop’s reigning mogul, Sean…