Top mathematicians gathered recently in San Francisco at the offices of OpenAI to discuss what would be left for humans to do ...

3I/ATLAS, a mysterious interstellar object racing toward the Sun, is baffling scientists with its speed and origin. Some researchers suggest it could even be alien-made, drawing comparisons to probes ...

Humpty Dumpty had all the king's horses and all the king's men, but it wasn't enough to put him back together again. This ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In January 2025 I was in Santa Clara, California writing some JavaScript to perform some reporting. I wanted to be ...

In modern web development, there are many situations where complex numerical calculations that cannot be solved by simple arithmetic alone are required. Whether it is controlling user interface ...

In modern web application development, the accurate manipulation of numerical data underpins every function, from dynamic changes in user interfaces to physics simulations and complex business logic.

There is a rule in mathematics that feels so obvious it barely seems worth stating. Yet accepting it leads to objects with no size, spheres that duplicate themselves, and sets that cannot be measured ...

Visually, the “Klein bottle” doesn’t seem all that impressive. On first glance it looks like a trendy Japandi-style vase. And yet it has fascinated mathematicians for more than 140 years. To ...

When a delicate object crashes onto the floor, most people expect it to shatter into several pieces. What they might not know, however, is that the sizes of those fragments—whether from a broken plate ...

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...