The math behind even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major ...

DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve helps solve a math puzzle with Terence Tao, showing how AI can now invent new ideas—and prove old ones ...

Mathematician Grigori Perelman solved the Poincaré conjecture, and then rejected the $1 million prize that came with it.

For years, plastic surgeons thought the proportions of a beautiful buttocks should follow the Fibonacci sequence. Now, people ...

The tallest man to ever live was Robert Wadlow, who reached a staggering 2.72m. That's equal to a very large male ostrich or Shaquille O'Neal with two bowling pins balanced on his head.

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His ...

The University of California, San Diego, is perhaps the first major public university in the country to require all ...

Building deck stairs takes patience and precision, but with the right measurements and a few tips, you can create a sturdy ...

Today’s teachers find themselves thrust into a difficult position with generative AI. New tools are coming online at a ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

The rushed and uneven rollout of A.I. has created a fog in which it is tempting to conclude that there is nothing to see here ...