The Mummers got a chance to strut their stuff again in Philly. The string bands competed Saturday in the 2026 String Band Spectacular at Lincoln Financial Field. This, after windy weather postponed ...

Years ago, an audacious Fields medalist outlined a sweeping program that, he claimed, could be used to resolve a major problem in algebraic geometry. Other mathematicians had their doubts. Now he says ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called "Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?" Forty-five years later, ...

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...

String theory's equations give rise to a near infinite variety of potential universes in a 'landscape.' This landscape is surrounded by a 'swampland' of solutions that are incompatible with any ...

Hey folks! Dominic Bayley here. I’m a journalist and editor at PCWorld and a keen enthusiast of all kinds of tech. I love getting to know new hardware, apps, and gadgets and writing tips and tricks ...

Black holes, the densest objects in the universe, eat up anything that comes too close, even light. Is there anything left inside these behemoths that could reveal what they devoured in the first ...

Everything on a computer is at its core a binary number, since computers do everything with bits that represent 0 and 1. In order to have a file that is "plain text", so human readable with minimal ...

String theory remains elusive as a 'provable' phenomenon. But a team of physicists has now taken a significant step forward in validating string theory by using an innovative mathematical method that ...

Scientists seeking the secrets of the universe would like to make a model that shows how all of nature’s forces and particles fit together. It would be nice to do it with Legos. But perhaps a better ...