According to mathematical legend, Peter Sarnak and Noga Alon made a bet about optimal graphs in the late 1980s. They’ve now ...

Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has ...

Get the latest news delivered to your inbox. Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has spent his career cataloging ...

A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be created in exotic materials.

A popular hypothesis for how the brain clears molecular waste, which may help explain why sleep feels refreshing, is a subject of debate.

When pigeons outnumber pigeonholes, some birds must double up. This obvious statement — and its inverse — have deep connections to many areas of math and computer science. Despite the hype, it’s been ...

The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language.

Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence ...