NATURE BRIEFING 22 July 2025 Daily briefing: The restaurant at the centre of the mathematical universe A free-wheeling 1930s cafe that nurtured mathematical ideas holds lessons for how to spur ...

In the early 2000s, a young graduate student at Harvard University began to chart an exotic mathematical universe — one inhabited by shapes that defy geometric intuition. Her name was Maryam ...

Last winter, at a meeting in the Finnish wilderness high above the Arctic Circle, a group of mathematicians gathered to contemplate the fate of a mathematical universe. It was minus 20 degrees Celsius ...