In some real-world settings, taxicab geometry is more convenient, and more relevant, than Euclidean geometry. Engineers use it when planning the most efficient paths for robots to take when navigating ...

Or Dungeons and Dragons with actual dragons? Well, thanks to a group of researchers hailing from Carnegie-Mellon University ...

A new 100-foot mural painted by students from the Eagle Bay Academy uses geometry, prime numbers, and fractal patterns in its ...

Imagine cells navigating through a complex maze, guided by chemical signals and the physical landscape of their environment.

Google DeepMind has introduced AlphaEvolve, a generative AI agent designed to advance algorithms used in mathematics and computing. The system develops new and more complex algorithms for ...

On the reading list this week is a book that looks at the key mathematical structures that underpin both human creativity and ...

Coordinated behaviors like swarming—from ant colonies to schools of fish—are found everywhere in nature. Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) ...

The second feature from Celine Song, who made the exquisite 'Past Lives,' is another smart look at a romantic triangle.