Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

Surprisingly, mathematics and science are similar in challenging a fundamental truth: That there exist things that are ...

The Mid-Michigan Graduate Women in Science chapter and campus RSO hosted "Girls in Math and Science Day" on March 14. Over 170 "future scientists" registered for the event, some even traveling for ...

We've wondered for centuries whether knowledge is latent and innate or learned and grasped through experience, and a new research project is asking the same question about AI. When you purchase ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The way we perceive color may seem obvious, but for more than a century, scientists have been trying to mathematically work out how humans perceive ...

Researchers used algebra and geometry together to solve an old random walk problem. Random walk ideas have informed everything from biology to video games. This team identified a key geometry idea ...

The incompleteness theorem is accepted as part of the mathematical canon today, but columnist Jacob Aron says it was a ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Because our eyes perceive color using cones coded primarily for red, green, and blue, photoreception of color can be modeled using three-dimensional ...