When it comes to chronicling the past, it seems there are basically two ways discoveries are made: either they’re the result ...

His two early papers “What Numbers Could Not Be” (1965) and “Mathematical Truth” (1973) — the latter of which came to be called “the Benacerraf problem" — became instant classics and are discussed to ...

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...

Space-time may hide a bizarre new kind of black hole that causes Einstein’s theory of gravity to fail – and could solve the ...

Winner: Meta AI wins for the straightforward approach and offers a user-friendly way to say then sentence according to the ...

Every year as Valentine’s Day approaches, people remind themselves that not all expressions of love fit the stereotypes of ...

A brilliant young mathematician becomes an enemy of the deep state in a paranoid new potboiler streaming on Apple TV+.

They retrieved over 50 ancient genomes from a set of burial grounds ... knowledge of Iron Age Britain has come primarily from the Greek and Roman writers, but they are not always considered ...

Amid the ashes of a funeral pyre, encased in burnt mud, was a papyrus scroll—the first to be found in mainland Greece. Dating of the document and the discovery its literary nature subsequently ...

Getting there meant doing away with traditional approaches. In May of 1694, in a lecture hall at the University of Cambridge, Isaac Newton and the astronomer David Gregory started to contemplate the ...

Ancient Greeks had a reciprocal relationship with animals. This photo depicts a banquet between Heracles and Eurytus with their dogs. Credit: Jastrow Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Animals played a ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...