Cogito, ergo sum, as the phrase goes in Latin, cemented the way the Western world would continue to define the self for the next 400 years—as a thinking mind, first and foremost. The experiment used a ...

To do this, they introduced a novel mathematical object they call the space-time dimension field. This field acts as a kind ...

Just a month after his wedding, Colin Day was diagnosed with Stage 4 gastric cancer and died seven months later. In her grief, his newlywed widow Helen Moore decided that she would dedicate her life’s ...

Self-affirmation theory can help increase self-worth and motivation. Learn more about how you can incorporate the practice ...

Quantum ideas describe particles and fields in tiny packages, but general relativity paints gravity as smooth curves in space ...

Belief in an afterlife, God and spirits in nature is widespread globally. Older adults are more likely than younger adults to ...

Every journey of the thousands of new Duke and Duke Kunshan graduates tells a different story. The students came from around ...

Princeton faculty members William Bialek, Kai Li, Peter Singer and Christopher Skinner were elected to membership in the ...

Most elementary teachers are expected to teach all subjects, but many don’t have a strong math foundation, experts say.

Diophantus of Alexandria revolutionized algebra with Arithmetica, pioneering symbolic notation and abstract number theory.

Isabel Rabey reviews Einstein’s Tutor: the Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics by Lee Philips ...

On April 26, 1920, the nation lost Srinivasa Ramanujan a rare mathematical genius. His mathematical consciousness illuminated the world for eternity. This is not merely his death anniversary; it is a ...