The quantum world is famously weird—a single particle can be in two places at once, its properties are undefined until they are measured, and the very act of measuring a quantum system changes ...

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President Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Friday. US District Judge ...

Pro Vice-Chancellor, Climate, Sustainability and Inequality and Director, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand The relationship between inequality and economic ...

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Beverly Walton can tell her life story on Rencher Street in Hillsborough. "I'm 66 years old, so I've been there 66 years," she said. She grew up in one house, met and ...

Editor’s Note: Jon Lukomnik is a longtime institutional investor, former deputy comptroller of New York City and an adjunct professor at Columbia University. He has authored several books, including ...

Since the start of the 20th century, the heart of mathematics has been the proof — a rigorous, logical argument for whether a given statement is true or false. Mathematicians’ careers are measured by ...

A triangular structure inside Area 51 has caught public attention. Google Earth images revealed the object. This discovery has fueled speculation about its purpose. Some theories suggest alien ...

About a decade ago Tonan Kamata, now a mathematician at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), stood mesmerized in front of a math museum’s origamilike exhibit. It featured a ...

Why are some countries rich and others poor? It’s among the most important questions in economics—in all the social sciences—and one at the heart of the work for which MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon ...