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Why Can’t My Computer Understand Me?
Hector Levesque thinks his computer is stupid—and that yours is, too. Siri and Google’s voice searches may be able...
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How to test Weinstein’s provocative theory of everything
Physicists have a problem, and they will be the first to admit it. The two mathematical frameworks that govern...
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In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge
In 1999, while sitting at a bus stop in Cuernavaca, Mexico, a Czech physicist named Petr Šeba noticed young...
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Mathematicians Aim to Take Publishers Out of Publishing
Mathematicians plan to launch a series of free open-access journals that will host their peer-reviewed articles on the preprint...
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The Life of Pi, and Other Infinities
The popular notion of infinity may be of a monolithic totality, the ultimate, unbounded big tent that goes on...
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Do the Math: How Songbirds Learn to Sing
Scientists studying how songbirds stay on key have developed a statistical explanation for why some things are harder for...
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A Backdoor Way to Do Experiments on Exotic Gravitational Physics
The whole point of an explanation is to reduce something you don’t know to something you do. By that...
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Opening the Doors to the Life of Pi
For those of us who have been intoxicated by the powers and possibilities of mathematics, the mystery isn’t why...
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Higgs Data Reveals Fundamental Structure of Matter
The 12 matter particles we know about are all the types there are, according to researchers analysing CERN data....
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The New Math of Some Temporary Things
New Math is an attempt to quantify the world using words and basic math.