It is not the appearance or typographical structure that is prized, but the concepts it embodies and the unexpected links it ...

Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel prize, sometimes called the Nobel prize of mathematics, for his work on algebraic analysis. Kashiwara, a professor at Kyoto University, Japan, received the ...

Quantum computing has so far nearly always involved calculating with qubits — quantum objects that can take the value ‘0’ or ‘1’, like ordinary computer bits, but that can also be in a ...