Alexander Grothendieck was a titan in his field, making deep connections that fuelled a revolution in mathematics, before giving it all up and disappearing. Jacob Aron explores what his work meant ...

Is it really possible that half of all people who have ever been age 65 or older are still alive today? We explore the amazing mathematics of demography to find out ...

LIMI trains agents with a few examples and can lower the barrier for enterprises to build bespoke, high-performing AI agents for specialized workflows.

It's budget season. After receiving questions on how school districts are spending their money, we wanted to make finding the answers easier.

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The plastics industry is in flux, as there is an increasing push to replace petroleum-based materials with sustainable alternatives. But sustainability alone is not enough. Bio-based plastics need to ...

Television nature programs and scientific papers tend to celebrate the perfection of evolved traits. But the father of evolution through natural selection, Charles Darwin, warned that evolution would ...

AI might not take your job, but it could take over some parts of it. A decade ago, everyone from internet trolls to the Obama administration had the same suggestion for young people seeking a stable, ...

Because the radicals in their own party will go on the attack the second someone says “no.” The leadership is terrified of its own base. So they continue to defend the indefensible, even as ordinary ...

The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of thirst.

Ancient “technologies” that still have scientists baffled Ancient civilizations demonstrated remarkable ingenuity in solving complex engineering, architectural, and technological challenges using ...