Baez called for the development of new mathematics — he called it “green” math — to better capture the workings of Earth’s ...

The theorists who first created the mathematics that describe the behavior of the recently announced "invisibility cloak" have revealed a new analysis that may extend the current cloak's powers, ...

When Lisa Piccirillo solved a decades-old mystery about the “Conway knot,” she had to overcome the knot’s uncanny ability to hoodwink some of the most powerful tools mathematicians have devised. Known ...

Today's BAFact: How much brighter is the Sun than the faintest object ever seen? About Avogadro’s number times brighter. Yesterday and the day before I wrote about how much brighter the Sun is than ...

HILLSBORO, OR —Traditional approaches for extracting computational power from silicon are insufficient for meeting the requirements of machine-vision, professional-video, medical-imaging, ...

Researchers demonstrate that our brain need only perform a few lightning-fast statistical calculations to detect key properties of unknown objects. From a child snapping Legos together to a pickpocket ...

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