BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Scientists have long used mathematics to describe the physical properties of the universe. But what if the universe itself is math? That's what cosmologist Max Tegmark believes. In ...

A previously unknown mathematical property has been found to be behind one of nature’s greatest mysteries – how ecosystems survive. A previously unknown mathematical property has been found to be ...

Max Tegmark's Our Mathematical Universe asks some big questions, including the very nature of existence itself--and explains all of them with math, arguing that everything around us is made out of it.

Let’s think big! We humans have repeatedly underestimated not only the size of our cosmos, but also our ability to understand and improve it. Over and over again, we’ve realized that everything we ...