If you could take an apple and break it into smaller and smaller parts, you would find molecules, then atoms, followed by subatomic particles like protons and the quarks and gluons that make them up.

The Riemann hypothesis is the most important open question in number theory—if not all of mathematics. It has occupied experts for more than 160 years. And the problem appeared both in mathematician ...

The results, from what is known as the nation’s report card, offer the most definitive picture yet of the pandemic’s devastating impact on students. By Sarah Mervosh and Ashley Wu U.S. students in ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new effective measure of un-certainty (MoU) of basic belief assignments. This new continuous measure is effective in the sense that it satisfies a small number of very ...

It’s been 162 years since Bernhard Riemann posed a seminal question about the distribution of prime numbers. Despite their best efforts, mathematicians have made very little progress on the Riemann ...

Hong Kong’s rural powerhouse, the Heung Yee Kuk, has defended the controversial policy of allowing male indigenous villagers to build small houses as a “constitutionally protected” right, telling the ...

This research topic deals with applications of quantum mechanical techniques to areas outside of quantum mechanics. Research in this area has grown over the last 15 years. But even already more than ...

Let’s say you hear a juicy rumor that you just can’t keep to yourself. You hate rumormongers, so you compromise by telling only one person and then keeping your mouth shut. No big deal, right? After ...

Land rights for at least 23 per cent of more than 42,000 small houses built for ­indigenous villagers in the New Territories over the past four ­decades are suspected to have been illegally sold to ...