Stories by The Conversation

The mathematical odyssey, plus a guide to calculating pi for yourself

Officials criticized them as bogus "magicians," but making data transparent caused residents to demand action

Videos from Africa capture repeated activities unconnected to food or status

From churches to schools, the places where people cast their ballots can subliminally 'prime' the choices they make

To thrive, species must be quick breeders, unfussy eaters.

Digital virtualization is one way to preserve temples and statues from bombs, says anthropologist

Two scientists working on the Giant Magellan Telescope explain the mammoth and intricate construction

The Obama administration called for greater urgency in developing firearms that can be used only by a device's authorized user

Patents will have even more trouble with 3-D copies than copyright law had with digital music sales

Striking pattern formation has implications for serious embryonic disorders in humans

After poachers kill matriarchs, daughters try to rebuild social bonds in their groups, but it is a survival struggle

While many different factors can dull your wireless signal, it would take a lot of holiday twinkling to thwart your router

New study explores how life on one exoplanet could spread to its neighbor

Pyrenees fossils suggest the Montsechia lived up to 130 million years ago and is the earliest known example of a fully submerged aquatic flowering plant

Even if the decade-old flyby spacecraft could have used higher frequency microwaves to return data, large improvements might not have followed

If you find yourself being chased by a crazed bipedal robot, simply enter a room and close the door behind you

Former CERN scientist offers an inside look at the Large Hadron Collider as it awakens from a two-year slumber

A detailed look at why computers running the U.S. electrical infrastructure are so vulnerable to digital threats

Hint: it took chain saws, feathers and lots of latex, says vertebrate palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Brusatte

Hurricane season has begun and, despite predictions for a relatively quiet year, forecasters urge caution over complacency

Neuroimaging aids investigation into what happens in the brain when we try to remember information that’s very similar to what we already know

A new robotic tentacle has the potential to improve keyhole surgery

Pizza Hut has started to test eye-tracking technology for ordering in some of its U.K. restaurants, but it may not get your order right

After breaking the sound barrier of 1,223 kilometers per hour with Thrust SSC, a British team is building Bloodhound SSC to cross the 1,600-kph mark