From Plato’s search for hidden forms to Bernoulli’s law of large numbers and Markov’s breakthrough on dependent events, this story traces how mathematicians discovered the patterns hidden inside ...

A new AI-powered method is changing how scientists measure the universe. Developed by researchers at the Flatiron Institute and their partners, this technique offers a far more accurate way to ...

Where do the country’s charitable dollars really flow? A new collaborative report reveals a complex landscape of giving, with patterns shifting dramatically across time, geography, and donor types.

Eye movements may reveal hidden knowledge we don’t realize we have, offering clues to how people learn skills and become experts.

Graphical representation of the team's results. By comparing word usage and sentence patterns, their AI-based statistical model identified three distinct writing styles, or scribal traditions, shown ...

Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone’s everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research that suggests you can, and often sooner than you might expect. Whether in a ...

The spatial distribution of tree species in species-rich tropical forests is highly complex. The figure shows the spatial position, species identity (color) and size of individual trees in a 500 m × ...

The breadth of President Trump’s onslaught of executive orders is wearying even to the most experienced officials, journalists and analysts — likely by design. Although many of the proposals contained ...

The breadth of President Trump’s onslaught of executive orders is wearying even to the most experienced officials, journalists and analysts — likely by design. Although many of the proposals contained ...