Even most rocket scientists would rather avoid hard math when they don't have to do it. So when it comes to figuring out ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is celebrating Pi Day (March 14) with a set of four math problems — featuring Martian craters, distant exoplanets, Saturn orbits and eclipses — to be understood ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In October, a Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida, carrying NASA’s Europa Clipper mission. The $5 ...

Enormous disks of stars or debris can operate under the same rules as subatomic particles, changing based on the Schrodinger equation, which physicists use to model quantum-mechanical systems. Viewing ...

After some serious number crunching, a UBC researcher has come up with a mathematical model for a viable time machine. Ben Tippett, a mathematics and physics instructor at UBC's Okanagan campus, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Hold on to your protractors, people, we're about to get positively scientifical up in here. Seeing the recent coverage of the 50th anniversary of the first moonwalk got me to try a game I'd been ...

Yes, a space heater can slash your heating bill. We ran the numbers to prove it works.

The center will make a nice connection between Stevenson and the community but also give students a program that many schools ...