Physicists have long treated mass as a basic ingredient of nature, something particles simply possess, even as the Higgs mechanism explained only part of the story. A new wave of theoretical work now ...

The family Malpighiaceae presents species with different habits, fruit types and cytological characters. Climbers are considered the most derived habit, followed, respectively, by the shrubby and ...

"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 ...

A simple relationship test called the “bird theory” is spreading on TikTok as a way to find out if your partner even cares. All you have to do is point out something not particularly interesting, like ...

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman have warned on social media in recent weeks of the “Dead Internet Theory,” an idea that the internet is dominated by bot activity ...

If you've spent any amount of time wandering through the stranger corners of the Internet, be it Reddit, 4Chan, or conspiracy-themed YouTube channels, you may have bumped into a phrase that sounds ...

Donald Trump posted a clip promoting new “med bed” hospitals. These hospitals, an apparently AI version of Trump promised in the video, would be “equipped with the most advanced technology in the ...

Diophantus, who likely inherited foundational ideas from Thymaridas of Paros, laid fundamental work for algebra by exploring solutions to linear equations that later influenced modern mathematics.

Although these days we get to tap into many sources of entropy to give a pretty good illusion of randomness, home computers back in the 1980s weren’t so lucky. Despite this, their random number ...

The burnt toast theory is a metaphor for life that helps people interpret minor inconveniences as having positive ripple effects or a “silver lining.” It’s related to the butterfly effect. While not a ...

This is the twenty-third in a series of annual workshops sponsored by the New York Number Theory Seminar at the CUNY Graduate Center on problems in combinatorial and additive number theory and related ...

A photo of seashells and a series of four numbers have landed former FBI Director James Comey in hot water. Federal law enforcement officials said on May 15 that they are investigating an Instagram ...