The cosmological constant is the mathematical description of the energy that drives the ever-accelerating expansion of the cosmos. It's also the source of one of the most enduring and confounding ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world, we’re forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper ...

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended up being too simple. Reading time 3 minutes As typically is the case with ...

Hawking radiation causes black holes to eventually evaporate. This is because particle pairs are spontaneously created near ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

You will never be able to prove every mathematical truth. For me, this incompleteness theorem, discovered by Kurt Gödel, is one of the most incredible results in mathematics. It may not surprise ...