Some math conjectures and theorems and proofs can take on a profound, quasi-religious status as examples of the limits of human comprehension. TREE(3) is one of those examples. "You've got all these ...

When December arrives, twinkling lights on every street announce the 'Christmas season.' Then, as Christmas gets closer, large and small Christmas trees appear in big shopping malls, on building ...

For thousands of years, philosophers have pondered cardinality: knowing “how many.” Using a series of crude estimates, the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes worked out the approximate number of ...

The last complete reversal of the Earth's magnetic field, the so-called Laschamps event, took place 42,000 years ago. Radiocarbon analyses of the remains of kauri trees from New Zealand now make it ...

Thanks to a team of scientists, there's a new "tree of life" showing the ancestry of millions of different species dating back to the beginning of the planet. The team, led by Karen Cranston of Duke ...