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Brief cosmic blips called fast radio bursts have puzzled astronomers since their discovery earlier this decade. Now researchers appear to be close to understanding what powers them.

A new proof shows why an uncountably infinite number of Möbius strips will never fit into a three-dimensional space.

Physicists have devised a holographic model of “de Sitter space,” the term for a universe like ours, that could give us new clues about the origin of space and time.

The Born rule, which connects the math of quantum theory to the outcomes of experiments, has been derived from simpler physical principles. The new work promises to give researchers a […]

The brain can’t directly encode the passage of time, but recent work hints at a workaround for putting timestamps on memories of events.

With the help of deep learning techniques, paleoanthropologists find evidence of long-lost branches on the human family tree

Neural networks can be as unpredictable as they are powerful. Now mathematicians are beginning to reveal how a neural network’s form will influence its function.

Perfect black holes are versatile mathematical tools. Just don’t mistake them for the real thing.

An analysis of lunar craters has found that we’ve been living in a relatively violent period in cosmic history.