It’s a staple of popular fiction, but two mathematicians in Australia now say that an age-old maxim is nothing more than bananas. The Infinite Monkey Theorem hypothesizes that, given a typewriter and ...

Positive curvature, like that on a sphere, implies a finite universe, while zero curvature, as on a flat plane or negative ...

The old adage goes that if you give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite amount of time hitting random keys on a typewriter, one of them will eventually type out the complete works of William ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as the Squid Galaxy. Everything on ...