The world of geometry just witnessed a pivotal breakthrough. Mathematicians at Monash University have cracked a centuries-old puzzle dating back to the 17th century, extending Descartes’ Circle ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More ...

Researchers takes a serious, objective look at a topic that critics might claim is beyond scientific understanding -- crop circles. In this month's edition of Physics World, Richard Taylor, director ...

Lowry Kirkby reviews The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics by Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky Thirst for physics: Leonard Susskind's popular series of lectures ...

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) represent a burgeoning paradigm in computational science, whereby deep learning frameworks are augmented with explicit physical laws to solve both forward and ...