Mathematician Richard Evan Schwartz discovered how to make an origami torus with the least folding possible. The tent-shaped ...

A battle between “slimes” and “zoglins” could be the best way to calculate pi—at least for fans of this megahit game ...

Scientists revisited the Antikythera Mechanism after a YouTuber’s experiment—and may have finally solved the mystery of the ...

Researchers at the University of Toronto showed how hackers could use artificial intelligence to create a program that could ...

A team at the University of Chicago has discovered a surprisingly simple way to create powerful quantum states that are normally difficult to produce. By making small adjustments to the energy levels ...

A century before social-media bans and advice to disable device notifications, the inventor and science-fiction writer Hugo Gernsback proposed a more extreme way to avoid distraction: an isolating ...

Nicola Jones is a freelance writer in Pemberton, Canada. Last year, climate researcher Zeke Hausfather was playing around with climate-data visualizations, trying to find new and shocking ways to show ...

Researchers have developed a light-driven method for creating tiny, high-energy “housane” molecules that are valuable for drug development and materials science. These compact ring-shaped structures ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

Scientists are building autonomous robotic labs powered by artificial intelligence. The goal, they say, is for these robots ...