News

  1. Largest known prime number found

    Featured Math Trek column: The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, a cooperative computing project, helps find a prime that has nearly 13 million digits.

    By
  2. Space

    With a twinkle, pulsating stars could deliver signals from E.T.

    Neutrino beams may turn Cepheids into messengers for advanced alien civilizations.

    By
  3. Space

    Galaxies on the move

    Scientists discover "dark flow" -- the unexplained streaming of galactic clusters across the universe.

    By
  4. Humans

    The first sound bites

    During the 1908 presidential race, Taft and Bryan sounded off in a new way as use of the phonograph got serious.