Most of you have used a navigation app like Google Maps for your travels at some point. These apps rely on algorithms that ...

Scientists usually study the molecular machinery that controls gene expression from the perspective of a linear, two-dimensional genome—even though DNA and its bound proteins function in three ...

Researchers from Duke Health and the University of Minnesota recently discovered that measuring specific tiny genetic ...

Mathematicians and physicists often boast about their ‘Erdős number’, defined by their degrees of separation from him in ...

Early in the morning during festivals, many Indian homes wake up to patterns forming quietly at the doorstep. White powder falls in steady lines. Dots appear fi ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Clathrate hydrates are crystalline inclusion compounds with relevance to global ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic ...

Every four years, the world gathers to watch as the best of every nation competes at the Olympic Games, broadcast all around the world. The excitement for each competition builds. But before an ...