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A new proof shows why an uncountably infinite number of Möbius strips will never fit into a three-dimensional space.

Researchers hope that the genes of a glowing squid can illuminate how animals evolved organs for beneficial bacteria.

In spite of their name, “imaginary” numbers are as real as any other numbers, especially when it comes to hunting for lost treasure.

The new work promises to give researchers a better grip on the core mystery of quantum mechanics.

The brain can’t directly encode the passage of time, but recent work hints at a workaround for putting timestamps on memories of events.

Recent progress on the “sum product” problem recalls a celebrated mathematical result that revealed the power of miniature number systems.

With the help of deep learning techniques, paleoanthropologists find evidence of long-lost branches on the human family tree.

A graduate student has helped illuminate a long-suspected connection between addition and multiplication.

If highly repetitive gene-regulating sequences in DNA are easily lost, that may explain why some adaptations evolve quickly and repeatedly.