The SciencesDecember 22, 2016
Mesmerizing Fractals
An artistic science project from Science Buddies
Math
The SciencesDecember 13, 2016
Avant-Garde Music and Distributed Computing
The program is over when the data have yielded an answer or chosen not to
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The SciencesDecember 8, 2016
What I Would Do with $3 Million for Math
How I would revamp the Breakthrough Prize
Public HealthDecember 6, 2016
Commuting Patterns Help Forecast Flu Outbreaks
Flu forecasts within large metro areas like New York City might be improved by adding in data about the flow of commuters. Christopher Intagliata reports.
The SciencesDecember 3, 2016
What Is a Light-Year?
Do you know what it is that a light-year actually measures? Do you know why so many people find it confusing? And why they really shouldn’t?
The SciencesDecember 1, 2016
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: Lexicographic Ordering on the Unit Square
A familiar shape gets weird
The SciencesNovember 29, 2016
The Math behind the Polls
When polls try to tease out what a group of people is thinking, what are they measuring and how can they go wrong?
The SciencesNovember 29, 2016
OK Go's Big Math-splosion
"The One Moment" is made possible by numbers
The SciencesNovember 23, 2016
Hermann Weyl's Poignant Eulogy for Emmy Noether
Weyl's eulogy for Emmy Noether starts to sound like a eulogy for German mathematics
The SciencesNovember 11, 2016
Overthinking an Erdős Quote about Ramsey Numbers and Evil Aliens
Paul Erdős versus Moore's law
Mind & BrainNovember 1, 2016
Why Math Education in the U.S. Doesn't Add Up
Research shows that an emphasis on memorization, rote procedures and speed impairs learning and achievement
The SciencesOctober 31, 2016
A Few of My Favorite Spaces: The Sierpinski Triangle
The fractal you can make with candy corn