(via Quanta) A simple question about a spinning needle has haunted mathematicians for more than a century. It led to the Kakeya conjecture, a cornerstone of modern analysis connecting geometry, ...

Science Saru's adaptation of the manga's exorcism song led to the studio issuing a statement about its homage to X Japan. Reading time: Reading time 4 minutes As the second season reaches its midpoint ...

When Hannah Cairo was 17 years old, she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a long-standing guess in the field of harmonic analysis about how waves behave on curved surfaces. The conjecture ...

Not a day goes by in clinic without a patient asking about the recent New York Times article on multiple myeloma: "Doc, is there really a cure now? I want this treatment." The article was boldly ...

The Hawaii County Council has voted unanimously to indemnify two former police officers who fatally shot a driver in Kailua-Kona two years ago following a traffic crash during a manhunt. The 9-0 vote ...

The Hawaii County Council voted unanimously last week to indemnify two former police officers who shot and killed a driver in Kailua-Kona two years ago following a traffic crash related to a manhunt.

It is rare to read about “spectacular progress” or a “once-in-a-century” result in mathematics. That’s for good reason: if a problem has not had a solution for many years, then completely new ...

In light of recent controversies confronting the University of Virginia Health System, the leadership of the University of Virginia Physicians Group wishes to make public its support for the Board of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Sometime in the fall of 2021, Andrew Krapivin, an undergraduate at Rutgers University, encountered a paper that would change his life.

A mathematical breakthrough made this year is so complex that other mathematicians struggled to understand it, but it has already led to progress in other areas of maths. In May, Sam Raskin at Yale ...

An eerie silence pervades the historic center of Culiacan, capital of the Mexican state of Sinaloa, where infighting among one of the world's biggest drug cartels has left hundreds of people dead ...