A landmark study published in Nature has established a new benchmark in modelling the universe’s most extreme events: the collisions of black holes and neutron stars. This research, led by Professor ...

Eugenio Calabi was known to his colleagues as an inventive mathematician — “transformatively original,” as his former student Xiuxiong Chen put it. In 1953, Calabi began to contemplate a class of ...

Calabi–Yau spaces have become the poster child for string theory. These baroquely curved shapes adorn book jackets and conference notices galore, and you can even buy a plum-size model of one from the ...

String theory captured the hearts and minds of many physicists decades ago because of a beautiful simplicity. Zoom in far enough on a patch of space, the theory says, and you won’t see a menagerie of ...

In their new book, The Shape of Inner Space, Shing-Tung Yau and Steve Nadis review some beautiful developments in geometry and mathematical physics involving a special class of spaces known as ...