A new study reveals that Srinivasa Ramanujan’s century-old formulas for calculating pi unexpectedly emerge within modern theories of critical phenomena, turbulence, and black holes. In school, many of ...

Modern spaceflight rests on a deceptively simple idea: a machine that carries its own fuel and oxidizer, then hurls exhaust ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

Ramanujan's pi-computing machinery exactly mirrors the necessary structure in modern physical theories (LCFTs).

BENGALURU: Everyone has studied the irrational number π (pi) in school and wondered what is its use in modern day life.

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

Building on decades of effort, Lizhong Zhang, Member (2023–24) in the School of Natural Sciences; James Stone, Professor in ...

Quantum computers require extreme cooling, and current cryogenic systems make quantum data centers expensive, energy-heavy, ...

Tracking the first astronauts’ visit to Mars won’t be as simple as watching a clock or marking days off of a calendar. Thanks ...

An international team of researchers has used knowledge of historical geography to reexamine the earliest datable total solar ...

It is something like the "Holy Grail" of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is ...