Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields ...

Shayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms.

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The biologist’s bold “energetic view of life” looks to the body’s strangest organelles as the link between cells, health, and ...

Extremophiles that thrive in the most unforgiving environments aren’t just biological curiosities. Understanding their ...

Before he won a Fields Medal for his pioneering work balancing randomness and order, Yu Deng first had to achieve equilibrium ...

Today’s computers need safeguards against random energy fluctuations. Thermodynamic computers would put those fluctuations to ...

W hen I was first learning to write, my letters and words ran from right to left, reversed as if in a mirror. Being ...

Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields Medal. Sometimes Being First Means Seeing the End Before Anyone Else ...

Every four years, the math world’s preeminent awards are given to the finest minds of a generation. The young winners — all under 40 on the first day of the year — have reshaped mathematics and ...

Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple ...

Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a wealth of new theories to explain them. Now they just need to figure out which ...