Five University of Bristol academics will be appointed inaugural Fellows of the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences ...

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Take the pressure off of problem-solving with engaging thinking games that encourage students to work together to find ...

When Alfred University Associate Math Professor Amanda Lipnicki took up knitting as an undergraduate student, she didnt immediately recognize how mathematics and geometry underlay the patterns of ...

Opinion polarization is often considered as the primary driver of social friction, leading to exhaustive efforts to force a consensus. However, new research suggests a more pragmatic goal: reducing ...

When you’re in Marrakech, Morocco, one minute you could be navigating the narrow passages of the medina, while the next ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a ...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and crops, archaeologists say.

In a complex world, rational decision-making becomes insufficient, as the consequences of choices are often unpredictable. Reassuringly, generative AI won't be able to touch the complex, which is ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

A mysterious visitor from the stars is currently challenging everything we thought we knew about interstellar wanderers. The latest data from the Hubble Space Telescope has just added a sharp and ...

Photo by Jeff Tome Pictured are bees on hexagonal honeycomb. Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones based on natural ...