To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source.

A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem. Getting there meant ...

Heat is supposed to ruin anything it touches. But physicists have shown that an idealized form of magnetism is heatproof.

Truist lowered the firm’s price target on Quanta Services (PWR) to $398 from $399 and keeps a Buy rating on the shares as part of a broader ...