We've wondered for centuries whether knowledge is latent and innate or learned and grasped through experience, and a new ...

The precise imaging of many-body systems, which are comprised of many interacting particles, can help to validate theoretical ...

The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...

Using a relatively young theory, a team of mathematicians has started to answer questions whose roots lie at the very ...

For Mr. Santos, math can also inspire ideas about structures that have already been built — a new way to see and appreciate the world. Inspired by this idea, The New York Times created a virtual tour ...

A few years ago, I had lunch with the head of a major motion picture studio, who declared that his central problem was not finding good people—it was finding good ideas. Since then, when giving talks, ...