Ramanujan’s insights into pi are now guiding scientists toward a deeper understanding of how the universe works.

It was in the year 1914 that Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan came to Cambridge with a notebook filled with 17 ...

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athematics is, at its core, an art. Like painters, musicians or writers, mathematicians create and explore new worlds. They ...

MIT engineers developed artificial tendons that could connect robotic skeletons and biological muscle tissue. Made from tough and flexible hydrogel, the tendons could be used in various bio-hybrid ...