Noted American mathematician Steve Smale opposed the Vietnam War, and political factors then influenced his next funding application being rejected

Perhaps physicists should embrace infinity instead of trying to banish it from their theories

Successor to Hubble Space Telescope investigating how the first galaxies were formed

That’s Maths: It is not the appearance or typographical structure that is prized, but the concepts it embodies and the unexpected links it makes

That’s Maths: The Earth’s axis is at right angles to the line from sun to Earth, the sun is directly over the equator and the lengths of day and night are approximately equal

The basic physical principles of quantum mechanics and vibrations are relevant to widespread climate change

With the rapid advance of artificial intelligence, forecasting skill is expected to increase significantly

That’s Maths: New scientific theories often use mathematical methods developed decades earlier

Poincaré was a French scientific giant in the late 19th and early 20th century who made fundamental contributions to all major areas of mathematics

At a recent Dublin lecture, a physicist argued Mileva Marić played a key role in Einstein’s research leading up to the theory of special relativity

That’s Maths: Our response to music is spontaneous rather than rational. Yet, much can be gained by analysing music in physical and mathematical terms

That’s Maths: Symmetry is invariance under transformation and it is described by a mathematical discipline —group theory