Can you drill a hole in a cube that an identical cube could fall through? Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this ...
Prince Rupert of the Rhine first asked this question in the 17th century, and he soon found out the answer is yes. Later, ...
DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve helps solve a math puzzle with Terence Tao, showing how AI can now invent new ideas—and prove old ones ...
Mathematics is the first place where evidence of AI superintelligence is likely to appear, a theoretical computer scientist says. “Will there be a superhuman AI mathematician?” asked theoretical ...
The output of Ryan Murphy, who thinks subtlety is for cowards, now resembles children’s programming but real sexy like ...
Thermo Fisher Scientific and Society for Science today announced the winners of the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge (Thermo Fisher JIC), the nation’s leading middle school science ...
Ken Fisher is retiring after 55 years as a broadcast technician, ending a career that spanned the evolution of radio from ...
This 180-sided object cannot fit through another like it, no matter where you bore the hole or how you tilt it.
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) in Hamburg have discovered a striking ...
Now, research from Northwestern Engineering’s Vadim Backman reveals a second “language” of life: the “geometric code” embedded in the genome’s physical shape. Like a blueprint for making living ...