Why do some melodies feel instantly right, balanced, memorable and satisfying, even if you have never heard them before? New research from the University of Waterloo suggests that more than creativity ...

The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is a prestigious competition featuring talented high school students from around the world, in which competitors solve complicated mathematical problems.

Mathematicians from the California Institute of Technology have solved an old problem related to a mathematical process called a random walk.

The teenager was researching the Miura-ori fold when Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida and wildfires raged in Southern California. “I thought maybe these origami patterns, which are strong and ...

At the heart of Netflix's "Stranger Things" is a girl with a "011" tattoo on her wrist. Her name is Jane, but she is almost always called Eleven. Though unusual, it's not out of the question for ...

Boston is giving its office-to-residential conversion program another year to prove itself, but so far the results have been mixed. Despite the city approving 15 projects since launching the Downtown ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

In late 2021, as the housing market overheated and the Federal Reserve’s benchmark interest rate hovered near zero, Tony Yang found an unconventional way to fund his down payment. He logged into his ...

Stage two of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Supplemental Disaster Relief Program is now open for enrollment. Additionally, the department announced that SDRP will extend aid for uninsured crop ...

Japan’s space program has grown through precision engineering, quiet breakthroughs, and mission designs that do more with less. Instead of racing rivals, Japan focuses on highly targeted technologies ...

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick said that although consoles are not going away, gaming is moving towards PCs. Zelnick said that the gaming industry is shifting to more open systems rather than closed.

The Social Security bridge strategy involves using cash to pay expenses in order to delay claiming Social Security. While the future of Social Security may currently feel up in the air, it still ...