More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...

A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical ...

Physicists have discovered a surprising new “Island of Inversion” in a place no one expected: among nuclei where the number ...

What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains ...