Michael Atiyah claims to have found a proof of the Riemann hypothesis James Glossop/The Times/News Syndication One of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics may have been solved, retired mathematician Michael Atiyah is set to claim on Monday. In a talk at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany, Atiyah will present what he refers to as a “simple proof” of the Riemann hypothesis, a pr

You might not get turned into spaghetti (Image: Tom Dymond/Rex) Falling into a black hole may not be as final as it seems. Apply a quantum theory of gravity to these bizarre objects and the all-crushing singularity at their core disappears. In its place is something that looks a lot like an entry point to another universe. Most immediately, that could help resolve the nagging information loss para

The ATLAS detector (Image: David Parker/Science Photo Library) This could be it. The Large Hadron Collider finally has enough data to explore every nook and cranny where the elusive Higgs boson could be hiding. LHC physicists will announce the results of their latest hunt on Tuesday at CERN in Switzerland. What if they find nothing? New Scientist takes a look at alternatives to the Higgs. What is