Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

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 ...

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger developed quantum theory’s wave equation, which describes quantum systems as waves that ...

Researchers in the US and Germany have solved a mathematical problem that has puzzled ...

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A record-breaking snow drought has residents worried about much more than slushy slopes. By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey and Nina Riggio The $5 billion project in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to help ...

Don’t start with moon shots. by Thomas H. Davenport and Rajeev Ronanki In 2013, the MD Anderson Cancer Center launched a “moon shot” project: diagnose and recommend treatment plans for certain forms ...

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Physics is the search for and application of rules that can help us understand and predict the world around us. Central to physics are ideas such as energy, mass, particles and waves. Physics attempts ...