Researchers uncover the mathematical structure behind mesmerizing tiling patterns, linking their visual appeal to the ...

Physicists discovered that the famous ‘Star Trek’ spaceship got a lot right about designing a ship to jump from galaxy to ...

The USS Enterprise was an impossible dream rendered in fiber glass. Designed for Star Trek, it looked like a creation straight out of creator Gene Roddenberry’s imagination: Twin nacelles—those long, ...

It's highly recommended to recruit Aza before completing this quest. Aza's companion quest requires you to clear out the N-Ray Range anyway, so you can kill two birds with one stone. Acquire the N-Ray ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...

The “Discrete Mathematics” quest in The Outer Worlds 2 comes with a hefty stack of obstacles, starting with its pickup point. You’ll have to avoid explosives, defeat invisible enemies, and solve a ...

Systemic, structural change has always been a part of the perspective of the Greater Good Science Center. In a 2022 essay, editor Jeremy Adam Smith defines structural forces in the context of our work ...

Sound smarter by knowing when to use discreet vs. discrete. These handy tips will help you keep them straight! Imagine you’re attending a lecture but slip in a few minutes late. The speaker has ...

When most people think of shapes, they imagine a triangle, a rectangle, or maybe even a fancier-sounding rhombus or trapezoid. But to mathematicians, shapes encompass a vast universe of surprising ...