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Wordle is a word game. But you can use math to optimize your chances of winning (without cheating).

Maintenance of the software that’s used for the hardest physics calculations rests almost entirely with a retiree. The situation reveals the problematic incentive structure of academia.

The unprecedented experiment explores the possibility that space-time somehow emerges from quantum information.

The work — the first-ever limit on how many whole numbers can be written as the sum of two cubed fractions — makes significant headway on “a recurring embarrassment for number theorists.”

Researchers discover that to sharpen its control over precision maneuvers, the brain uses comparisons between control signals — not the signals themselves.

Inspired by the results of a game-playing neural network, mathematicians have been making unexpected advances on an age-old math problem.

Wei Ho, the first director of the Women and Mathematics program at the Institute for Advanced Study, combines algebra and geometry in her work on an ancient class of curves.

Proving that two polygons have the same area can be as easy as cutting them up and rearranging the pieces.

Two physicists have calculated that the universe has a higher entropy — and is therefore more likely — than alternative possible universes.