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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.

Among these cave insects, the females evolved to have penises — twice. The reasons challenge common assumptions about sex.

Perfect black holes are versatile mathematical tools. Just don’t mistake them for the real thing.