The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

Even the most elite endurance athletes can’t outrun biology. A new study finds that humans hit a metabolic ceiling at about 2.5 times their resting energy burn. When ultra-runners take on races that ...

It's a well-known fact that quantum calculations are difficult, but one would think that quantum computers would facilitate the process. In most cases, this is true.

Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...

The entire affair was more strange than spectacular. Mahut won more games in a match than anyone in tennis history (except ...

Scientists have long thought of DNA as an instruction manual written in ... memory and gene mutations may have created a self-learning system. “Looking across time,” Backman said, “life progressed ...