For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

Scientists at TU Wien found that electrons need specific “doorway states” to escape solids, not just energy. The insight ...

A light pulse redirects electrons in an ultrathin layered material, creating a stable new state without heat or damage and ...

Having good neighbors can be very valuable—even in the atomic world. A team of Amsterdam physicists was able to determine an ...

Century old Quantum Mechanics can explain how a single sub-atomic particle cross the energy barrier through tunneling, be ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...