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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.

Priyamvada Natarajan has pioneered the mapping and modeling of the universe’s invisible contents, especially dark matter and supermassive black holes.

Neural networks can be as unpredictable as they are powerful. Now mathematicians are beginning to reveal how a neural network’s form will influence its function.