It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

Biggest vs smallest - how do we measure up in the grand scheme of the universe? Explore the fascinating scales of existence, from quantum particles to the observable universe’s edge. A journey into ...

By combining the language of groups with that of geometry and linear algebra, Marius Sophus Lie created one of math’s most ...

Whether it is a cube of sugar or a chunk of a mineral, a mathematical analysis can identify how many fragments of each size ...

Even items that are technically recyclable sometimes wind up in landfills. See if you can guess which types are likeliest to be recovered.

When a plate drops or a glass smashes, you're annoyed by the mess and the cost of replacing them. But for some physicists, the broken pieces are a source of fascination: Why does everything break into ...

The Kuiper belt, a disc of icy rocks on the outermost edges of the solar system, seems to have more structure than we thought. In 2011, researchers found a cluster of objects there on similar orbits ...

After over a month of government shutdown, NASA finally released new images of mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS on Wednesday. During the livestreamed event, NASA brass took pains to “address ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

RANGERS hero Ally McCoist gave YouTube viewers a fright this morning as he took a page out of Simon Cowell’s book. The Ibrox legend put on an infra red mask as he participated in a beauty ...

Former Barcelona star Jordi Alba says there’s no comparison to be made between Lionel Messi and Lamine Yamal as the GOAT simply has no rival. Yamal is still only 18 but has had to put up with ...