Robots can surpass the limitations on how high and far animals can jump, but their success only underscores nature’s ingenuity in making the most of what’s available.

Richard Rusczyk, founder of Art of Problem Solving, has a vision for bringing “joyous, beautiful math” — and problem-solving — to classrooms everywhere.

Neural networks originally designed for language processing turn out to be great models of how our brains understand places.

Physicists have discovered that the ring of photons orbiting a black hole exhibits a special kind of symmetry, hinting at a deeper meaning.

When the brain encodes memories as positive or negative, one molecule determines which way they will go.

What’s a message, really? Claude Shannon recognized that the elemental ingredient is surprise.

The grainy image of a “super-Jupiter” is a sign of what’s to come as the telescope’s exoplanet observations ramp up.

Rethinking questions and chasing patterns led Newton to find the connection between curves and infinite sums.

Anima Anandkumar wants computer scientists to move beyond the matrix, among other challenges.