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A new series of papers has settled a long-standing question related to the popular game in which players seek patterned sets of three cards.

Try these shortcuts for solving problems that seem to require a lengthy calculation.

Neanderthals and Denisovans may have endowed modern humans with genetic variants that helped them thrive in new environments.

A surprising new proof is helping to connect the mathematics of infinity to the physical world.

Greatness was always expected of Ken Ono. But as he struggled with his parents’ expectations, he found solace and inspiration in the life of two-time college dropout — and mathematical genius — Srinivasa Ramanujan, the subject of the film The Man Who Knew Infinity.

An experiment claims to have invalidated a decades-old criticism against pilot-wave theory, an alternative formulation of quantum mechanics that eliminates the most baffling features of the subatomic universe.

Can you find a shortcut for solving problems that seem to require a lengthy calculation?

A specific set of neurons deep in the brain may motivate us to seek company, holding social species together.

The astrophysicist, conceptual writer and host of standing-room-only scientific soirees at a repurposed factory in Brooklyn sees science as a powerful force in culture.