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Objects in Our Universe Evaporate Faster than Thought, Scientists Say

An artist’s impression of a neutron star that is ‘evaporating’ slowly via Hawking-like radiation. Image credit: Daniëlle Futselaar / Artsource.nl.
May 12, 2025 by News Staff

In a 2023 paper, Professor Heino Falcke and his colleagues at Radboud University showed that not only black holes, but also all other objects in the Universe can ‘evaporate’ via a process akin to Hawking radiation. After that publication, the authors received many questions about how long the process would take. In a new study, they calculated that the end of the Universe is about 1078 years away, if only Hawking-like radiation is taken into account....

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An artist’s impression of LTT 1445Ab in the triple-star system LTT 1445. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Scientists Discuss Physics and Mathematics behind ‘3 Body Problem’

Apr 10, 2024 by News Staff

Based on the book trilogy Remembrance of Earth’s Past by Chinese computer engineer Cixin Liu, Netflix’s sci-fi television series 3 Body Problem introduces...

Ramsey problems, such as r(4,5) are simple to state, but as shown in this graph, the possible solutions are nearly endless, making them very difficult to solve. Image credit: Jacques Verstraete / University of California, San Diego.

Mathematicians Solve Long-Standing Ramsey Problem

Nov 1, 2023 by News Staff

A duo of mathematicians at the University of California, San Diego, has found the answer to r(4,t), a long-standing Ramsey problem that has perplexed the...

Harrison et al. investigated whether the human visual system represents environmental attributes that are critical for optimal inference. Image credit: Gerd Altmann.

Human Brain is Naturally Wired to Perform Advanced Calculations, New Study Confirms

Sep 15, 2023 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has developed a specific mathematical model that closely matches how a human brain works when it comes to reading vision....

Giraffes can calculate which option is more likely to produce their preferred food based on basic statistical calculations. Image credit: Howard Wilks.

Study: Giraffes Can Make Decisions Based on Statistical Information

May 5, 2023 by News Staff

The ability to make inferences based on statistical information has so far been tested only in animals having large brains in relation to their body size,...

Mathematicians often describe arguments as beautiful or dull, and famous scientists have claimed that mathematical beauty is a guide toward the truth. Do laypeople, like mathematicians and scientists, experience mathematics aesthetically? Three studies by Johnson & Steinerberger suggest that they do. Image credit: Gerd Altmann.

Researchers Identify Three Genetic Variants Associated with Mathematical Abilities in Children

Feb 23, 2023 by News Staff

Mathematical ability is moderately heritable, and it is a complex trait which can be evaluated in several different categories. A few genetic studies have...

The egg, as one of the most traditional food products, has long attracted the attention of mathematicians, engineers, and biologists from an analytical point of view. Image credit: Designer Coleman.

Researchers Find Universal Formula for Egg Shape

Sep 1, 2021 by News Staff

The new mathematical formula can describe any bird’s egg existing in nature, says a team of scientists from the United Kingdom and Ukraine. The egg,...

Si.427, obverse. Image credit: İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri / D.F. Mansfield, doi: 10.1007/s10699-021-09806-0.

3,700-Year-Old Babylonian Clay Tablet is Earliest Known Example of Applied Geometry

Aug 5, 2021 by News Staff

Known as Si.427, the ancient clay tablet was discovered and cataloged along with many other tablets by the 1894 French archaeological expedition at Sippar...

Left: Linear A fraction signs and their standard transcription. Right: Linear A clay tablet HT 104. Image credit: Heraklion Archaeological Museum and the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sport, Archaeological Resources Fund / Corazza et al, doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2020.105214.

New Research Sheds Light on Fraction Signs of Still Undeciphered Minoan Linear A Script

Sep 10, 2020 by News Staff

Minoan Linear A is still an undeciphered script mainly used on the island of Crete from 1700 to 1400 BCE. A new study published in the published in the...

Photo taken in the Bourbaki Congress of 1938 in Dieulefit, from left to right: Simone Weil (accompanying her brother André), Charles Pisot, André Weil (hidden), Jean Dieudonné (sitting), Claude Chabauty, Charles Ehresmann, and Jean Delsarte.

Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed: Nicolas Bourbaki

Dec 27, 2019 by The Conversation

Nicolas Bourbaki is likely the last mathematician to master nearly all aspects of the field. A consummate collaborator, he made fundamental contributions...

In human skulls, division of the nasioiniac arc (from nasion to inion, NI) by bregma into a shorter frontal arc (from nasion to bregma, NB) and longer parietooccipital arc (from bregma to inion BI), creates a geometrical relationship in which the ratio of the nasioiniac arc over the bregma-inion arc (NI/BI) coincides with the ratio of the bregma-inion arc over the nasion-bregma arc (BI/NB), both 1.6. The subdivision of the nasioiniac arc by bregma into two unequal arcs emulates the geometrical division of a line into the Golden ratio. Image credit: Tamargo & Pindrik, doi: 10.1097/SCS.0000000000005610.

Human Skull Dimensions Follow Golden Ratio: Study

Oct 7, 2019 by News Staff

The Golden ratio principle is present in the architecture and evolution of the human skull, suggests a new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins...

Mathematicians Solve Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem for Number 42

Sep 9, 2019 by News Staff

University of Bristol’s Professor Andrew Booker and MIT Professor Andrew Sutherland have found a solution to x3 + y3 + z3 = 42, the famous 65-year-old...

Mathematicians often describe arguments as beautiful or dull, and famous scientists have claimed that mathematical beauty is a guide toward the truth. Do laypeople, like mathematicians and scientists, experience mathematics aesthetically? Three studies by Johnson & Steinerberger suggest that they do. Image credit: Gerd Altmann.

Ordinary People Can See Beauty in Complex Math, New Research Reveals

Sep 6, 2019 by News Staff

According to a series of experiments by Yale University and University of Bath researchers, ordinary people see beauty in complex mathematical arguments...

Harvey & van der Hoeven cracked a maths problem that has stood for almost half a century which will enable computers to multiply huge numbers together much more quickly. Image credit: Gerd Altmann.

Mathematicians Develop New Algorithm for Multiplying Large Numbers

Apr 4, 2019 by News Staff

A team of mathematicians from the University of New South Wales in Australia and the L’École Polytechnique in France has solved a decades-old maths...

The 51st known Mersenne prime has 24,862,048 digits. Image credit: Pete Linforth.

Largest Known Prime Number Has Almost 25 Million Digits

Dec 24, 2018 by News Staff

Professional and amateur mathematicians from a worldwide research project called the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) have discovered the largest...

The team’s model reproduces key features of melting snowflakes that have been observed in nature: first, meltwater gathers in any concave regions of the snowflake’s surface; these liquid-water regions merge as they grow and eventually form a shell of liquid around an ice core, finally developing into a water drop. Image credit: Free-Photos.

Researchers Develop First-Ever 3D Numerical Model of Melting Snowflake

Mar 30, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has developed a numerical 3D model for the melting of single snowflakes. A better understanding of how snow melts can...

Apple Computer 1, also known later as the Apple I, or Apple-1, a desktop computer released by the Apple Computer Company in 1976. It was designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. Image credit: Ed Uthman / CC BY-SA 2.0.

Researchers Develop Mathematical Model for How Innovations Emerge

Jan 31, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of scientists has developed a mathematical model for the emergence of innovations, in which cognitive processes are described as...

Ancient Indian Manuscript Contains Oldest Example of Mathematical Symbol ‘Zero’

Sep 18, 2017 by News Staff

The Bakhshali manuscript, an ancient Indian mathematical manuscript written on more than 70 leaves of birch bark, is notable for having a dot representing...

Plimpton 322, a 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet held in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University in New York.

Mathematicians Crack Mystery of Babylonian Clay Tablet ‘Plimpton 322’

Aug 25, 2017 by News Staff

Plimpton 322, the most famous of Old Babylonian tablets (1900-1600 BC), is the world’s oldest trigonometric table, possibly used by Babylonian scholars...

Prof. Hales demonstrates his solution to the Kepler conjecture. Image credit: Bob Kalmbach / University of Michigan.

Scientists Deliver Formal Proof of Famous Kepler Conjecture

Jun 16, 2017 by News Staff

An international team of mathematicians led by University of Pittsburgh Professor Thomas Hales has delivered a formal proof of the Kepler conjecture, a...

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