A once purely mathematical tiling breakthrough has revealed an unexpected optical effect when recreated at the nanoscale.

Dr. Murray is a professor of great texts and creative writing at Baylor University. About 2,000 years ago, the Roman philosopher Seneca warned of a crisis of attention. The problem wasn’t caused by ...

Several selective universities have announced they will remove supplemental essays from their application materials for the 2026–27 admissions cycle, causing a stir in the admissions world. Some of ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Zak Zethner, an accessory dwelling unit policy analyst at Housing Help Inc., and Pilar Moya-Mancera, the not-for-profit organization's executive director.

German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

America has a spending problem. It also has a health care problem. These are not two separate crises but rather the same crisis wearing different clothes. The Cato Institute's new Handbook on ...

The U.S. blockade of Iran continues amid an uncertain round of peace negotiations, while Congress wrestles with the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown and the looming lapse of a key ...

Across government contracting organizations, the baseline can feel like an anchor. It captures the plan at contract award. Staffing assumptions, expected costs and the margin you believed the work ...