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How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

For close to a century, scientists have been trying to marry Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and quantum ...

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

The Hertz Foundation is proud to recognize the 16 most recent graduates of the Hertz Fellowship in applied science, mathematics and engineering.

By combining the language of groups with that of geometry and linear algebra, Marius Sophus Lie created one of math’s most ...