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 ...

The Nesin Mathematics Village in western Turkey was dreamed up by award-winning mathematician Ali Nesin to engage his ...

Randall Morck of the Alberta School of Business says economists too often regard people as "dynamic, stochastic optimization ...

If there was ever a demonstration of Jevons’ paradox, it’s the supercomputing sector. According to this law of economics, consumption rises, rather than falls, with production efficiency. William ...

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AI promises a smarter, faster, more efficient future, but beneath that optimism lies a quiet problem that’s getting worse: the data itself. We talk a lot about algorithms, but not enough about the ...

Larger animals do get more cancer than smaller ones, overturning the 45-year-old “Peto’s paradox” which suggested no link between animal size and cancer risk Species that evolved larger body sizes ...

In 2010, Jeremy Jamieson led a classic experiment. He invited a group of students to take a practice GRE, which is the standardized test for graduate school admissions. Half the students received a ...

To live in 2025 is a blessing. But it is also a strange time to be alive, particularly when it comes to wealth. When you think about wealth and what it does for someone and their quality of life, ...

Tinkering at their desks with the mathematics of quantum space and time, physicists have discovered a puzzling conundrum. The arcane rules of quantum theory and gravity let them imagine many different ...

Here is a principle that has engaged me for decades and has been a cornerstone of how I work: Do fewer things better. It’s deceptively simple, but it changes everything from how we spend our time to ...

👋 Hi, everybody! Way back in August, I asked all of you what has helped you get to know your neighbors and neighborhoods better. My answer was walking my dog every day — and many of you shared the ...