Montgomery happened to find strikingly similar behavior in the prime numbers— specifically, the correlations between the ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, ...

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so large they’re impossible to write out using standard mathematical notation.

The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper ...

Every cell in the human body operates on an intricate internal schedule, governed by circadian rhythms that synchronize our ...

The awk command is a versatile text-processing tool in Linux. It filters and manipulates files using patterns, conditions, ...

In Africa, design practices tend to focus on bottom-up growth and organic, fractal forms. They are created in a sort of feedback loop, what computer scientists call “recursion.

Only real cinephiles know these obscure movie facts There’s a certain breed of movie fan who sees two hours of cinema as much ...

The cult-favorite Orange County band discusses their latest album, 'Horizons/West,' and the musical itch they still hope to ...

For the October Art Diary, I feature exhibitions by several artists whose work I have championed through essays and ...