According to a new study, the distribution of prime numbers is similar to the positioning of atoms inside some crystalline materials.

When a crystallographer treated prime numbers as a system of particles, the resulting diffraction pattern created a new view of existing conjectures in number theory.

For centuries, prime numbers have captured the imaginations of mathematicians, who continue to search for new patterns that help identify them and the way they’re distributed among other numbers ...

Mathematicians were able to discover a pattern for prime numbers, which have long been recognized as very random. The discovery increases the understanding of prime number behavior and may ...

Jacob Aron discusses patterns in prime numbers (19 March, p 12). This prompted me to wonder whether the patterns would persist if you considered the last two digits in a prime number rather than ...

Mathematicians at Stanford University found that prime numbers aren't completely random. Instead, neighbouring prime numbers were found to avoid repeating their last digits.

In the first episode of Prime Target on Apple TV+, Ed Brooks (Leo Woodall) makes the prime number discovery that sets the story — and danger — in motion.

The world's largest known prime number has been discovered, but we can't show it because it's so large it would take up 21 standard-sized novels to turn into text. Called M136279841, its shorthand ...

Prime numbers are infinite, and proving anything about patterns in them is notoriously difficult. Mathematicians continue to chip away at pair primes, which are primes that are two apart: 11 and ...