This year’s Abel prize, an annual mathematics lifetime-achievement award, bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd Faltings, a ...

Peter Badge. Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is notoriously difficult. Today, the Norwegian ...

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

Is the universe infinite or finite? Posted: February 21, 2026 | Last updated: February 21, 2026 A deep dive into one of the biggest questions in cosmology. Scientists explore whether the universe goes ...

Here is the core endeavor of spiritual practice: transcending finite mind. The finite mind of “I-Me-Me-My” is inherently dualistic — it operates by creating distinctions between subject and object, ...

Fans are waiting on pins and needles to see what Mark Wahlberg has in store for 2026, but before his first movie of the year arrives, everyone is rushing to check out one of his more controversial ...

A few stanzas from the end of Chaucer’s long poem “Troilus and Criseyde,” the author interrupts his story to indulge in a bit of reception anxiety. “Go, litel book,” he bids the manuscript that’s soon ...

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The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond ...

Is the universe infinite? It's one of the most profound questions we can ask, and here's the short answer: We don't know. While we have learned a great deal about the universe, a portion of the cosmos ...