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Researchers from Stanford and UC Berkeley are being celebrated like celebrities for advancing mathematics and developing ...

The cosmological constant is the mathematical description of the energy that drives the ever-accelerating expansion of the ...

This article is the first part of a series about quantum field theory published by Quanta Magazine. Other stories in the series can be found here. Over the past century, quantum field theory has ...

Sitting in the front row of a "General Chemistry" class at McCosh last fall, tracking questions and taking notes as earnestly as any undergraduate, Ana Mostafavi was a reassuring fixture in one of the ...

How can we tell good from evil? Is there a way that we should lead our lives? Such inquiries are typically the realm of philosophers, but Steven Landsburg argues that math, economics, and physics can ...

Leo Shmuylovich knows a lot about how tutoring can take a student from confused to confident. The Washington University graduate student has worked as a tutor for several test-preparation companies ...

Computer engineering freshman Yousef Khater achieved the highest grade in Africa for International Advanced Levels in physics and chemistry.