This year’s Abel prize, an annual mathematics lifetime-achievement award, bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd Faltings, a ...

Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is notoriously difficult. Today, the Norwegian ...

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA, suggesting these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration by Lisa Pringle This week's question comes from Morning Brief reader Eric, who asks, "I've heard that meteorologists ...

There won't be any red pen marks like your math teacher, but for the first time, the IRS will have to give you a specific line instead of a general "this is wrong." American manufacturer’s hidden tag ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Taxes are all about numbers, and each year, millions of math errors are caught by the IRS. For this tax season, taxpayers will now receive letters from the IRS detailing where they ...

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