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High school students may have just discovered an 'impossible' proof to the 2,000-year-old Pythagorean theorem
Two high school seniors have presented their proof of the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry — which mathematicians thought to be impossible — at an American Mathematical Society meeting.
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Mathematicians make rare breakthrough on notoriously tricky 'Ramsey number' problem
The bounds on Ramsey numbers, which describe relationships between nodes in a network, have been narrowed.
'Ghostly' neutrinos spotted inside the world's largest particle accelerator for the first time
Signatures of neutrinos, or ghostly particles that rarely interact with others, were tentatively spotted in the Large Hadron Collider in 2021. Now, physicists have confirmed they are real.
There may have been a second Big Bang, new research suggests
Within a month of the Big Bang, a second cosmic explosion may have given the universe its invisible dark matter, new research suggests.
10 discoveries that prove Einstein was right about the universe — and 1 that proves him wrong
Albert Einstein's theories of relativity have been proven to be true time and again in the more than 100 years following their publication.
12 numbers that are cooler than pi
To celebrate Pi Day, we asked several mathematicians to tell us their favorite non-pi numbers. Here are some of their answers.
Albert Einstein: Biography, facts and impact on science
A brief biography of Albert Einstein, the scientist whose theories changed the way we think about the universe.
