Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

Neuromorphic computers, inspired by the architecture of the human brain, are proving surprisingly adept at solving complex ...

Some areas of mathematics appear repeatedly across nature, economics, and human behavior. This strange branch helps explain ...

It is a central question in neuroscience to understand how different regions of the brain interact, how strongly they "talk" ...

A global catalog shows how creatures across the tree of life balance rigidity with flexibility in remarkably consistent ways ...

A research team affiliated with UNIST has unveiled a novel AI system capable of grading and providing detailed feedback on ...

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. A male ornate boxfish with distinctive, complex patterns of stripes and ...

The best perk of Alberto Maspero’s job, he says, is the view from his window. Situated on a hill above the ancient port city of Trieste, Italy, his office at the International School for Advanced ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...

The relationship between artistic training and academic performance has long intrigued educational psychologists, with particular attention to how disciplinary specialization shapes cognitive ...