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

A world-famous light experiment from 1801 has now been carried out with sound for the first time. Research by physicists in ...

A dad was reviewing his son’s math homework assignment when the unexpected appearance of two words, scribbled in pencil, ...

For over a decade, mathematicians have failed to agree whether a 500-page proof is actually correct. Now, translating the ...

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

The same amount of alcohol is likely to have a bigger impact in your 60s or 70s than it did in your 20s. Here’s why one margarita could feel like two or three. As we age, our ability to metabolize ...

Pluribus has finally arrived. The first two episodes of Vince Gilligan’s heady new science fiction show (his follow-up to the ...