At the intersection of mathematics and music, the Festum Pi festival brings together theorists and performers to explore one of humanity’s oldest intellectual duets. We spoke with participant ...

At the intersection of mathematics and music, the Festum Pi festival brings together theorists and performers to explore one of humanity’s oldest intellectual duets. We spoke with participant ...

Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden beneath Antarctica’s vast ice sheet, uncovering a ...

“Dietary intake was self-reported and collected 3-9 years before data were collected on sleep and activity. Diets are known to change, especially in response to morbidity (e.g. cardiovascular disease) ...

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This year has seen some amazing advancements in fundamental mathematics. Researchers have made breakthroughs in geometry, topology, chaos theory, and more. And a startling three of our top 10 ...

Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the significance of mathematical modelling in decision-making and the limited capacity in many low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). Thus, we ...

As the AI spending bubble swells, so too are the numbers of people being drawn into delusional spirals by overly-confident chatbots. Joining their ranks is Allan Brooks, a father and business owner ...

Mathematicians sometimes think of their research as a garden and unsolved problems as seeds waiting to sprout. Some problems are analogous to tulip bulbs. As mathematicians work to solve them, they ...