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Simon Singh's exploration of mathematical proof – in particular Pierre de Fermat's last theorem – remains an absolute ...

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The time had come to open the envelope, but Stephan Schlamminger, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and ...

A simple pattern links billions of people: just a few connections apart. New research suggests this may be an unavoidable feature of human networks.

The most precise measurement yet shows the Universe is expanding faster than expected, deepening the Hubble tension. The ...