Math & Science
- If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
- I vibed a proof of Conway's conjecture
- After Math
- OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof
- Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
- Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
- Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle
- Black hole singularity is a surface not a point
- Turns are Better than Radians (2022)
- Mathematics in the age of AI
- Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"
- AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
- NP-overrated
- Principia Mathematica is modern and insightful
- Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
- Mario Meets Pareto
- Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI
- Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
- The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)
- Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
- Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
- The most official water costs $120k a gallon
- The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol)
- Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up
- Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012)
- Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach
- Fields Medals 2026
- A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample
- Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
- Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture
- Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel
- Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
- GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
- Computation as a universal and fundamental concept
- No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026
- The fall of the theorem economy
- How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?
- Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)
- AI in mathematics is forcing big questions
- The case against geometric algebra (2024)
- Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You
- πFS
- Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now "Magic" Gives It Gravity
- What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology
- An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
- Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test
- What can we gain by losing infinity?
- Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
- NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers
- God sleeps in the minerals
- Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log
- All elementary functions from a single binary operator
- False claims in a widely-cited paper
- Antimatter has been transported for the first time
- Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale (2025)
- Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?
- New mathematical framework reshapes debate over simulation hypothesis
- Approaching 50 Years of String Theory
- 987654321 / 123456789
- Pixel is a unit of length and area
- Tips for mathematical handwriting (2007)
- Weierstrass's Monster
- Invisible Electrostatic Wall at 3M plant (1996)
- Prime numbers so memorable that people hunt for them
- Device uses wind to create ammonia out of air
- Why the weak nuclear force is short range
- Very Wrong Math
- Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics
- Rational or not? This basic math question took decades to answer
- Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce
- The number pi has an evil twin
- Kelly Can't Fail
- Revisiting Stereotype Threat
- Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn't matter
- A visual proof that a^2 – b^2 = (a + b)(a – b)
- What is entropy? A measure of just how little we know
- Fermat's Last Theorem – how it’s going
- The case against Google's claims of "quantum supremacy"
- The Google Willow Thing
- Boltzmann brain
- A liar who always lies says "All my hats are green."
- A solution to The Onion problem of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (2021)
- The $5000 Compression Challenge (2001)
- Fair coins tend to land on the side they started (2023)
- AlphaProof's Greatest Hits
- The letter ℘: name and origin? (2017)
- Can humans say the largest prime number before we find the next one?
- Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds
- Moving to a World Beyond "p < 0.05" (2019)
- It might be possible to detect gravitons after all
- When are two proofs essentially the same? (2007)
- Gravity is not a force
- Yes, we did discover the Higgs
- Thought experiments that fray the fabric of space-time
- What is theoretical computer science?
- Time is a dimension, but not like space
- New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)
- Fundamental physics is dying? [video]
- Chemistry Nobel: Computational protein design and protein structure prediction
- On the Nature of Time
- Research in psychology: are we learning anything?
- Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]
- Why Is Light So Fast?
- Gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms
- John Wheeler saw the tear in reality
- Fraud, so much fraud
- Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)
- Averaging is a convenient fiction of neuroscience
- In 1870, Lord Rayleigh used oil and water to calculate the size of molecules
- What Is a Particle? (2020)
- LHC experiments at CERN observe quantum entanglement at the highest energy yet
- What happens when you touch a pickle to an AM radio tower
- The first nuclear clock will test if fundamental constants change
- Physics is unreasonably good at creating new math
- How does cosine similarity work?
- How the Higgs field gives mass to elementary particles
- Einstein's Other Theory of Everything
- Computer scientists prove that heat destroys quantum entanglement
- Using Fibonacci numbers to convert from miles to kilometers and vice versa
- Matching dinosaur footprints found on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean
- Poor Foundations in Geometric Algebra
- Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist
- The waiting time paradox: why is my bus always late? (2018)
- Galois Theory
- DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab
- Things I Won't Work With: Dimethylcadmium (2013)
- A wonderful coincidence or an expected connection: why π² ≈ g
- Does Astrology Work?
- Time is an illusion, and these physicists say they know how it works [video]
- Non-computability of solutions of certain equations on digital computers (2022)
- The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning
- Breakthrough a step toward revealing hidden structure of prime numbers
- How great was the Great Oxidation Event?
- Four billion years in four minutes – Simulating worlds on the GPU
- New study simulates gravitational waves from failing warp drive
- The irrational hungry judge effect revisited (2023)
- Bayesian Statistics: The three cultures
- AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level
- Physicists may now have a way to make element 120
- You got a null result. Will anyone publish it?
- Turing's topological proof that every written alphabet is finite (2010)
- What Is Entropy?
- Fitting an elephant with four non-zero parameters
- What could explain the gallium anomaly?
- Pi calculation world record with over 202T digits
- Physicists have created the most fiendishly difficult maze
- The zombie misconception of theoretical computer science
- With fifth busy beaver, researchers approach computation's limits
- Did Turing prove the undecidability of the halting problem?
- Well-known paradox of R-squared is still buggin me
- Einstein and his peers were resistant to black holes
- Why does current flow the opposite way from the electrons?
- How the square root of 2 became a number
- Show HN: I made a puzzle game that gently introduces my favorite math mysteries
- Nature retracts paper that claimed adult stem cell could become any type of cell
- A common misunderstanding about wave-particle duality
- Terence Tao on proof checkers and AI programs
- How David Bohm and Hugh Everett changed quantum theory
- Saint Michael Sword: Are the cathedrals really on a straight line?
- What no one has seen before: gravitational waveforms from warp drive collapse
- A breakthrough towards the Riemann hypothesis
- New theory suggests time is an illusion created by quantum entanglement
- Go east from Seattle
- What You Shouldn't Know About Quantum Computers
- The t-test was invented at the Guinness brewery
- Lewis Carroll – computing the day of the week for any given date (1887)
- BB(3, 4) > Ack(14)
- Grothendieck’s use of equality
- First proof that "plunging regions" exist around black holes in space
- Computer scientists invent an efficient new way to count
- Things I won't work with: the higher states of bromine (2019)
- Why you can hear the temperature of water
- Is the largest root of a random real polynomial more likely real than complex?
- Symbolica Computer Algebra System
- The Physics of Karate (2021)
- Atomic nucleus excited with laser: A breakthrough after decades
- Google Quantum AI
- AMA: I'm Dave Greene, an accidental expert on Conway's Game of Life
- New Foundations is consistent – a difficult mathematical proof proved using Lean
- Does light have an infinite lifetime?
- Goldene: A single atom layer of gold
- Base 10 is not a good base
- Here's a puzzle game. I call it Reverse the List of Integers
- Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, has died
- Is the frequency domain a real place?
- A rudimentary simulation of the three-body problem
- Why quantum entanglement doesn't allow faster-than-light communication (2016)
- Why isn't preprint review being adopted?
- Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable
- If gravity isn't a force, then why does it "need" a boson?
- 20 Years of "Not Even Wrong"
- Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeating Every 2.4M Years
- Georg Cantor and His Heritage
- Harvard concluded that a dishonesty expert committed misconduct
- A ragtag band of internet friends became the best at forecasting world events
- Simpson's paradox
- The later we meet someone in a sequence, the more negatively we describe them
- Walking home at night is not the same for women
- SymPy: Symbolic Mathematics in Python
- Marilyn vos Savant and the Monty Hall Problem (2015)
- Encoding tic-tac-toe in 15 bits
- Why is everything based on likelihoods even though likelihoods are so small?
- Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’
- Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper
- On whether we're living in a simulation
- Destruction of nuclear bombs using ultra-high energy neutrino beam (2003) [pdf]
- Relativistic Spaceship
- Citation cartels help mathematicians-and their universities-climb the rankings
- Researchers have found a faster way to do integer linear programming
- A confusing probability question: Red and green balls in an urn
- Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]
- How Euler Did It, by Ed Sandifer
- Scientific journal publishers and editors say they are being offered bribes
- Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolving universe?
- Scientists report asymmetry between heating and cooling
- Too much serendipity
- Lowercase letters save data
- 6174
- Peer review is an honor-based system (2008)
- Why does holding a key fob to your head increase its range?
- What has a 1 in a million chance? (2010)
- Possible Meissner effect near room temperature: copper-substituted lead apatite
- Mathematical Introduction to Deep Learning: Methods, Implementations, and Theory
- Blockbuster Alzheimer's paper retracted by former Stanford president
- Ask HN: What has quantum computing achieved so far?
- Coastline paradox
- How random is xkcd? (2015)
- Veritasium: The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong [video]
- Quantum computing's reality check
- Bayesians moving from defense to offense
- How big is YouTube?
- Does quantum theory imply the universe is preordained?
- Word2Vec received 'strong reject' four times at ICLR2013
- The Stanford Prison Experiment was hugely influential. We learned it was a fraud (2018)
- How to clean chemistry glassware
- Do black holes have singularities?
- Struggles with the Continuum
- The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation
- The largest number representable in 64 bits
- 37, the median value for the second prime factor of an integer
- Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist
- Running Speeds