This year’s Abel prize, an annual mathematics lifetime-achievement award, bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd Faltings, a ...

Someone asked “if you could know the truth behind one unexplainable mystery, which one would you choose?” and people described what they would love to know.

Should the universe “choose” braneworld, it could mean that your senses (which perceive fewer dimensions) are keeping you from experiencing the full number of dimensions surrounding you. This could ...

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, the Norwegian Academy of ...

Yuri Shukost says that people are "taking issue with the federal government having given $15 billion in subsidies to [fossil fuels] last financial year" (Letters March 17). Other people are taking ...