A classic math rule now handles infinity. New work strengthens the math behind physics and unbounded systems. % ...

A new AI developed at Duke University can uncover simple, readable rules behind extremely complex systems. It studies how ...

In science and mathematics, it has been a fairly common occurrence for two different people/teams to be working on the same problem, and invent the same solution. After all, both fields are concerned ...

Knitting may be an ancient manufacturing method, but one researcher believes that understanding how different stitch types determine shape and mechanical strength will be invaluable for designing ...

Life is rife with patterns. It's common for living things to create a repeating series of similar features as they grow: think of feathers that vary slightly in length on a bird's wing or shorter and ...

The central panel of Gustav Klimt's, "Tree of Life" triptych, painted around 1910 to 1911, was one of the artworks analyzed in the study. - incamerastock/Alamy Stock Photo Trees depicted in famous ...

It's a rare person who describes negative numbers (or any numbers) as ""unassuming but fun,"" and he is likely the same person who would notice that negative numbers ""stand as just about the only ...

In an editorial published by the American Mathematical Society, mathematicians from the US Naval Academy and the University of Washington noted that, because so much mathematical research is now ...

Figuring out how the human brain works. Your brain and mind make you who you are. And how they’re built is unique to you. That’s not a figure of speech, it’s the literal truth. The precise wiring of ...

New protocol advances solutions for more efficient teleportation – the transport of quantum information at the speed of light For the last ten years, theoretical physicists have shown that the intense ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...