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For decades, a small group of mathematicians has patiently unraveled the mystery of what was once math’s most popular picture. Their story shows how technology transforms even the most abstract mathematical landscapes.

If Anna beats Benji in a game and Benji beats Carl, will Anna beat Carl?

The Joy of Why podcast returns for a third season, with two co-hosts, 24 brilliant guests and 24 all-new episodes.

Some neighborhoods in the Milky Way may be better suited for making habitable planets than others.

The cerebellum is responsible for far more than coordinating movement. New techniques reveal that it is, in fact, a hub of sensory and emotional processing in the brain.

Far from being “stochastic parrots,” the biggest large language models seem to learn enough skills to understand the words they’re processing.

As measurements of distant stars and galaxies become more precise, cosmologists are struggling to make sense of sparring values.

John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of every possible length.

Microbiologists are searching for a universal theory of how bacteria form communities based not on their species but on the roles they play.