The Milky Way is not the neat, flat pinwheel many of us learned about in school. Fresh data from precision star maps now show ...

SINGAPORE – Growing up, Mr Edwin Tan never had a room of his own, so buying his first home in 2024 was an especially significant milestone. “Owning the whole place means I get to build it around my ...

A belief in ghosts could be a way to explain a strange experience while asleep. 'The Nightmare' by Johann Heinrich Füssli/Wikimedia Commons On Feb. 22, 2020, “Mad” Mike Hughes towed a homemade rocket ...

On Feb. 22, 2020, "Mad" Mike Hughes towed a homemade rocket to the Mojave Desert and launched himself into the sky. His goal? To view the flatness of Earth from space. This was his third attempt, and ...

Is the universe infinite? It's one of the most profound questions we can ask, and here's the short answer: We don't know. While we have learned a great deal about the universe, a portion of the cosmos ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside ...

Imagine a mathematical lens so powerful it could bridge the realms of particle physics and cosmology in a way that redefines how we perceive the universe’s architecture, offering a path toward the ...

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the behavior of elementary particles ...