In "Mapmatics," a mathematician tells the stories of how math helps us track epidemics, map the seafloor, and plot a complex delivery route.

The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that we should be very afraid of artificial intelligence’s existential risks.

The Octagon Earthworks here speak to us from 2,000 years ago — and they speak to the fraught cultural moment in which we find ...

Illinois is one of 32 states that provides funding for its national public media affiliates, but the $1.7 million state ...

The models can help local authorities and communities by evaluating the potential for collapse long before ground may give way entirely and suddenly.

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The first image of the Keyhole structure was acquired by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) HiRISE spacecraft in November with its smaller context camera (CTX). The image P14_006672_1836_XN_03N267W ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, ...

Last week this space was used to push a respectful scepticism towards the most basic received wisdoms in punting. It's an idea similar to 'Chesterton's fence', a parable by the writer and philosopher ...

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Artists aren’t immune to the strip’s allure. M.C. Escher, the famed graphic artist, incorporated the Möbius Strip in his ...