Tic-tac-toe doesn’t have much of a rep. Sure, it’s a simple, brief distraction from the monotony of existence, but once your 8-year-old self realizes that you can always force a draw, it loses its ...

Qian Lab: World's Smallest Tic-Tac-Toe Board Built from DNA Wondering which penny-pinching family member will hand out the smallest gifts this holidays? It would be hard to beat the one California ...

Artificial intelligence and high-performance computing are driving up the demand for massive sources of energy. But neuromorphic computing, which aims to mimic the structure and function of the human ...

DNA is the building material of life, but recent work has shown how the stuff can also be used to make art or even store data for long periods of time. Now, a team at Caltech has used DNA to make the ...

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel are building a tic-tac-toe game to help patients with their rehabilitation exercises. The game is played on a grid of boxes and includes ...

Up to equivalence, there aren’t nine distinct opening moves. There are only three. If it isn’t immediately clear to you what “up to equivalence” means here, I urge you to try and figure it out ...