National Doughnut Day on November 5th is one of two observed by doughnut lovers across the nation. The first Friday in June is the other day doughnuts steal the bakery case spotlight ready to tease ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. One can ...

Jeff Bridges returns alongside Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith and Gillian Anderson in Joachim Rønning’s installment about the collision of human and digital worlds. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic ...

The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...

This year's EU Contest for Young Scientists showcased hard science with a social edge, with young scientists presenting innovations ranging from robot turtles to quantum discoveries. For Evan Budz, a ...

A hidden quantum geometry that distorts electron paths has finally been observed in real materials. This “quantum metric,” once thought purely theoretical, may revolutionize electronics, ...

The Oklahoma City Thunder unveiled its 2025-26 NBA City Edition uniform on Thursday. The team says the design pays tribute to Native and Indigenous cultures that shape Oklahoma’s identity and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nick Crain is an NBA reporter covering the OKC Thunder for Forbes. The 2025-26 season is exactly two months away, as the reigning ...

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside ...

Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams (Collage). Credit: Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften. What do the tiniest ...