Mathematicians all around have struggled with a theory so opaque for more than ten years that it was labeled the “alien’s language.” Developed by Japanese mathematician Shinichi Mochizuki, the Inter-universal Teichmüller Theory (IUT) runs over 2,000 pages and promises to solve the famous ABC conjecture a problem in number theory with great consequences for cryptography, ...
Far beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, deep within a network of caverns that were cut into ancient rock, scientists search for an answer that has evaded man for thousands of years: why is there something, rather than nothing, in the Universe? The question is not simply philosophical, it’s a basic problem of physics. ...
Far in NASA’s super-sterile cleanrooms where spacecraft are assembled carefully to not infect other planets, researchers have made a staggering discovery: 26 new, undiscovered species of bacteria flourishing where nearly everything should perish. The microbes, impervious to extreme forms of sterilization, hold genetic information that might re-engineer biotechnology, medicine, and even our definition of life ...
