By screening films in a brain scanner, neuroscientists discovered a rich library of neural scripts — from a trip through an ...

Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can theoretically aid computation. They’re just now beginning to ...

Richard Green is a freelance mathematics writer and a professor of mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder. He has a degree from the University of Oxford and a Ph.D. from the University ...

A new proof reveals the answer to the decades-old “moving sofa” problem. It highlights how even the simplest optimization problems can have counterintuitive answers. If you’ve ever moved into a new ...

Quantum calculations amount to sophisticated estimates. But in 1931, Hans Bethe intuited precisely how a chain of particles ...

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever observed in nature. Cosmologists Try a New Way to Measure the Shape of the ...

Is the universe flat and infinite, or something more complex? We can’t say for sure, but a new search strategy is mapping out the subtle signals that could reveal if the universe has a shape.

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster ...