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Join the audience for a live webinar at 1 p.m. GMT on 15 November 2023, sponsored by IOP Publishing, to explore...

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IntroductionIn 2018, as he prepared to be awarded the Fields Medal, math’s highest honor, Akshay Venkatesh carried a piece of paper in his pocket....

Picture this: the setting sun paints a cornfield in dazzling hues of amber and gold. Thousands of corn stalks, heavy with cobs and rustling...

In a heartwarming display of support and generosity, a nonfungible token (NFT) artist named Trevor Jones raised nearly $140,000 (equivalent to 114,000 British pounds)...

Margarite L. LaBorde1, Soorya Rethinasamy2,1, and Mark M. Wilde3,11Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Center for Computation and Technology,...

IntroductionIn mathematics, a simple problem is often not what it seems. Earlier this summer, Quanta reported on one such problem: What is the smallest...