New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

Recent research shows that young children typically manipulate and rotate entire objects in their minds to understand ...

Bengaluru sculptor Kalyan Rathore merges art and math in Guinness Record sculptures that reveal the hidden geometry and ...

Morgan Housel explores how emotions, expectations, and the meaning of “enough” shape our relationship with money, happiness, ...

The Nation's Report Card reveals the slide in some students' test scores in reading and math began before 2020. What can be done to stem the decline?

This 407-million-year-old species of clubmoss doesn’t follow the Fibonacci sequence like most of its living relatives.

Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...

In "Mapmatics," a mathematician tells the stories of how math helps us track epidemics, map the seafloor, and plot a complex delivery route.

Mathematics is not about becoming a mathematician. It is about clarity of thought. It teaches precision, attention, and ...

Where every known method of divination seemed to fail, a group of researchers at Bocconi University in Milan found a hint in ...

“DPRIT is specifically designed to accelerate research into dementia, attracting top talent to our state and creating ...

This balance—neurons as the silent bee workers, waves as the queen’s rhythm holding the hive together—suggests consciousness ...