Aphantasia, the inability to form mental images, poses a serious challenge to an influential theory of abstract thought in ...

Mathematicians have calculated a “golden rule” for abstract art that famous artists tend to follow when they compose their works. Artificial intelligence, the team found, does not follow such implicit ...

Termite mounds are remarkable structures that regulate temperature, balance airflow and maintain structural stability in some of Earth’s harshest climates. And like other irregular, disordered systems ...

“I’ve spent a long time exploring the crystalline beauty of traditional mathematics, but now I’m feeling an urge to study something slightly more earthy,” John Baez wrote on his blog in 2011. An ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Einstein’s equations look like abstract math, but when the logic is followed all the way through, the results get unsettling fast. They predict effects like time slowing down, space bending, and ...

In 2018, Jessica Wade, a research associate in Imperial College London’s physics department, came across a video on a CIA Twitter account about a then-unknown Black woman scientist, Gladys West.

SALUDA — South Carolina’s education leaders have a simple message for their state: “Every student is a math student.” They’re tired of the idea that some kids just aren’t good at math, or that it’s ...

Larry Sanger helped to create Wikipedia, but he says he is horrified at how biased it has become—and he has a few suggestions about how to fix it. “Wikipedia shapes public opinion more than any other ...