What if the deepest part of a black hole is not defined only by crushed matter and broken spacetime, but by the logic of prime numbers? That question has moved from mathematical curiosity to a serious ...

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller natural numbers. They can only be divided by themselves and 1. And in a new ...

Envision energy trajectories that curve and cross each other. Now envision energy trajectories that are straight lines and do not cross. Now see an explosion of energy at the points where the curved ...

Watching this soap film stretch, rupture and reform in slow motion is mesmerising – but mathematicians see more than a trippy image. The point where the bubble breaks explosively is a mathematical ...