Britta Späth has dedicated her career to proving a single, central conjecture. She’s finally succeeded, alongside her partner ...

Indiana’s senate didn’t vote down the bill. The state senators did, however, agree to postpone it indefinitely. Had it not ...

Seleucus of Seleucia was an ancient astronomer who defended heliocentrism, arguing that Earth orbits the Sun and rotates on ...

The Antikythera computer captured the ancient Greek passion for mathematics, and especially geometry, and science.

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Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

Cambridge University researchers have uncovered evidence that two distinct populations of ancient hominins, separated for ...

Each year, on March 14, it's become traditional for numerophiles and mathematicians to pause and reflect on the most famous ...

Scientists don't call it the "Great Dying" for nothing. About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species ...

Mathematician Dr. Steven Strogatz breaks down the history of the math concept and brings it full circle to recent science.

Martian lake beds and deltas reveal the Red Planet’s watery past. But many puzzles remain, scientist Bruce Jakosky says.