From counting sheep to cows jumping over the moon, bedtime is full of math traditions and opportunities to use math talk. Try ...

The major veins of Chinese money plant leaves form what's called a Voronoi diagram. It might be caused by a plant-growth hormone that emanates in waves from developing leaves' pores ...

ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

Large language models can write essays, summarize legal clauses, explain ancient history, draft emails, and produce code that ...

Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 explores the fascinating mathematical structures found within Pascal's triangle and probability. The scale of Trump’s political blunder in Iran is coming into focus Nancy ...

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A new analysis of more than 422,000 patients reveals a stark Alzheimer’s care gap between Maryland’s urban and rural communities. Rural regions often lack hospitals and dementia specialists, forcing ...

In a scene that could have easily featured in an episode of the US television sitcom The Big Bang Theory, the late US physicist Richard Feynman once turned a visit to a Thai restaurant he often dined ...

New research shows that crops are far more vulnerable when too much rainfall originates from land rather than the ocean. Land-sourced moisture leads to weaker, less reliable rainfall, heightening ...

The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.

A dead phone battery is usually just an inconvenience. When it's a phone you've also lost, it starts to feel like a genuine disaster, because the app you'd normally use to find it requires the phone ...

These short anomaly-detection puzzles are designed to illustrate how reasoning often depends on identifying inconsistencies ...