In 2014, prior to her untimely death at the age of 40, she became both the first woman and the first Iranian to be awarded the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, often ...

The 1990 Fields Medals, mathematics' most prestigious international awards, were announced on August 21 in Kyoto, Japan, at the International Congress of Mathematicians. Four mathematicians received ...

Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out the subtle signals that could reveal if the universe has a shape.

The Americans fared well in the pool, but dominated athletics. The U.S. won by far the most medals in track and field with 34 ...

Nadeem became the first Pakistani in history to qualify for the final of any Olympic track and field event, and he will soon return to his country with a gold medal. In the men's discus, Jamaican Roke ...

Sloan fellow and UCLA mathematician Terence Tao won the Fields Medal in 2006 and the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics in 2014. “The Sloan Research fellows represent the very best of early-career ...