Chef José Andrés is challenging one of the biggest assumptions about hunger. He argues that feeding the world requires more ...

A decade after uncovering a mysterious mathematical relationship in the physics of "jamming," Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi ...

Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.

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For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended up being too simple.

A conversation with author Anne Morriss on why the slow and steady approach can leave issues unresolved. When it comes to solving complex, layered problems, the default for many organizational leaders ...

The San Antonio Spurs have spent four games building impressive first-quarter leads. The Knicks have spent four games proving those leads don’t tell the whole story. That’s the strange thing about ...

A famed physicist’s scribbles reveal the answer to a quintessential dilemma: When dining out, is it better to stick with an old favorite, or try something new? Nobel Prize–winning physicist Richard ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...