A shard of smooth bone etched with irregular marks dating back 20,000 years puzzled archaeologists until they noticed ...

Prime numbers have fascinated mathematicians for centuries. Now, supercomputers are entering the race to find the largest yet ...

By extending the scope of the key insight behind Fermat’s Last Theorem, four mathematicians have made great strides toward ...

How big would a meatball made from the entire human race be? A mathematician has revealed the answer - and it's a lot smaller ...

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"There's a constant race between alpha creation and alpha degradation," said Jean-Philippe Bouchard, the firm's chief ...

Nigerian-born mathematician and artistE, Professor Lawrence Udeigwe, is redefining the boundaries of academia and art. A ...

Du Sautoy contends that the fundamental structures underpinning artistic creativity are mathematical. He calls them ...

A brainteaser challenges math enthusiasts to solve a series of equations within a nine-second time limit. The puzzle involves ...

Papers by codebreaking war hero Alan Turing, which were discovered in a loft, are expected to fetch £150,000 at auction - after almost ...

A Chinese engineer has astounded mathematicians by decoding the Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory (IUT), a complex theory ...