Mary Somerville was a self-taught scholar whose work in mathematics and astronomy earned her the title of the “Queen of Nineteenth-Century Science.” She translated and expanded Laplace’s “Mécanique Céleste,” making complex celestial mechanics accessible to a broader audience and laying the groundwork for the discovery of Neptune. Her legacy extends to inspiring future women to ...
Satyendra Nath Bose, a seminal figure in the field of theoretical physics, laid the foundations for concepts that have propelled discoveries in modern physics, most notably the Higgs boson. While Bose himself may not have directly contributed to the discovery of this elusive particle, his groundbreaking work in quantum mechanics certainly set the stage for ...
A Giant Leap Toward the Infinite (Image Credits: Images.newscientist.com) Mathematicians in 2025 ventured into uncharted territories, probing the limits of numbers and logic in ways that reshaped foundational concepts. A Giant Leap Toward the Infinite Researchers edged closer to identifying a colossal number that could upend the core principles of mathematics. This elusive figure, lurking ...
Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani was an extraordinary mathematician whose influential work has had a profound impact on the field of mathematics, particularly in geometry and its applications. Born in Tehran, Iran, in 1977, Mirzakhani showed an early aptitude for mathematics, leading to a career marked by groundbreaking discoveries. In 2014, she became the first woman to ...
You glance at your watch, check the calendar, plan your evening. Everything in your life revolves around the passage of time. It’s hard to imagine anything more fundamental to reality than the steady march from past to present to future. Yet according to some of the most fascinating theories in modern physics, time as you ...
Have you ever gazed at a woven basket, a painted rock, or a beaded garment and felt a strange sense of harmony—like the shapes themselves were trying to tell you something? Across continents and centuries, Indigenous artists have harnessed the power of sacred geometry to create art that doesn’t just please the eye, but weaves ...
When we think of the moon missions, dazzling images of rockets blasting off and astronauts leaping in slow motion usually spring to mind. But there’s a powerful story that often slips through the cracks—one that hums quietly beneath the roar of engines and the cheers of mission control. It’s the story of extraordinary women whose ...
You have probably been told your whole life that time moves in one direction: past, present, future. End of story. But when you peek into the strange world of quantum physics, that neat picture starts to wobble. Experiments over the past few years suggest that, under certain conditions, time can behave as if events are ...
You probably grew up hearing that Einstein was a genius, but it can feel distant and abstract, like a legend from an old textbook. Then, all of a sudden, scientists started talking about ripples in spacetime and gigantic laser tunnels detecting the echoes of colliding black holes. It sounds like science fiction, yet it is ...
If time travel suddenly became real tomorrow, your entire sense of cause and effect would be up for negotiation. Everyday ideas you take for granted – like events happening in a fixed order, or your memories matching what “really” happened – would start to feel strangely fragile. You would not just be asking where or ...
