The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

Pushed down to a certain scale, the laws of physics seem to fall apart. Astrid Eichhorn, a leader in an area of study called ...

A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical ...

Every second, hundreds to thousands of molecules move through thousands of nuclear pores in each of your cells. A new ...

The last decade has seen vast improvements in humanoid robots, but graduating to widespread use might require going back to the fundamentals. “Not reliably,” Hurst said. “I don’t think it’s totally ...

Baez called for the development of new mathematics — he called it “green” math — to better capture the workings of Earth’s ...

For 50 years, mathematicians have believed that the total number of real numbers is unknowable. A new proof suggests otherwise.

In October 2008, Chris Bretherton lifted off from the coast of northern Chile in a C-130 turboprop plane. It was too dark to see the sandy hills of the Atacama Desert below, but the darkness suited ...

There’s a moment, just before the tight mass of cells that is a developing mouse embryo implants itself in the womb, that it all comes apart. Hundreds of tiny fluid-filled bubbles expand between each ...

Computer science, at its most fundamental, is all about inputs and outputs. Consider the simple case of multiplying two numbers on a pocket calculator. You punch in some inputs — the specific numbers ...

It’s a familiar image, reprinted in countless biology textbooks: an illustration of a typical cell, halved like a grapefruit to reveal its innards. Strands of endoplasmic reticulum encircle a nucleus ...