The creator of 3Blue1Brown argues that curiosity, not information, may be the most valuable skill in the age of AI.

When Mriganka Sur was a student at IIT Kanpur, there was no neuroscience department. Today, IISc Bengaluru, NIMHANS, and Haryana’s National Brain Research Centre are investigating the complexities of ...

The 2026 Fields Medals recognize breakthroughs in the math of messy fluids, tangled knots, spinning pencils, and more ...

Hong Wang, one of this year’s winners of the Fields Medals, which honor the top mathematicians under the age of 40, once ...

Math difficulty is still not well understood. But a systems approach may lead to advances in diagnosis and treatment.

Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields ...

John Pardon sees connections between different areas of math that others don’t. For that vision, he’s now been awarded a ...

any generation of Standard Model fermions transforms as the direct sum of six irreducible representations: These correspond to the six types of left-handed fermion: q L, d R, u R, ℓ L, e R, ν R. Six ...

Current Loss and Damage frameworks remain largely reactive, prioritising post-disaster response. We argue for better integration of ex-ante and ex-post approaches, including building back better ...

For more than 160 years, the National Academies have provided nonpartisan, evidence-based advice on decisions that affect our nation. Browse the listing of projects and activities to see examples of ...