Physicist Richard Feynman turned a lunch dilemma into a math problem. Researchers finally cracked his notes and found people approximate his solution on their own.

In principle, this impossible math allows for a glue-free bridge of stacked blocks that can stretch across the Grand Canyon—and into infinity Keep going. If you stack as many blocks as you can, what ...

New research from the University of Kansas has found that an intervention based on the science of reading and math effectively helped English learners boost their comprehension, visualize and ...

Since the dawn of the computer age, researchers have wrestled with two persistent challenges: how to store ever-increasing reams of data and how to protect that information from unintended access. Now ...

One question in computer science has stood above the rest for decades, resisting every attempt to settle it despite its enormous implications. At the center of the mystery is a deceptively simple idea ...

A robot named Adam was the first of its kind to do science. Adam mimicked a biologist. After coming up with questions to ask about yeast, the machine tested those questions inside a robotic laboratory ...

In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant riled up scores of mathematicians with her solution to the “Monty Hall Problem.” But she was right. The following is an excerpt from Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty ...

Take a glance at our solar system and beyond, and outer space seems pretty orderly. Our eight planets travel around the Sun with apparent predictability and even the stars themselves appear to march ...

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