Scientific American

Mathematicians make a breakthrough on Gauss’s riddle, unsolved for 200 years

A solution to part of the Cohen-Lenstra conjecture helps resolve a long-standing mystery about quadratic forms ...

Ant teams beat gravity-based puzzle solvers

Ants live in highly organized colonies and cooperate daily to tackle a wide range of problems. Their striking group behaviors ...

The database that thinks it’s a phone exchange: how two Brisbanites are rebuilding the data stack on hardware you already own

A two-person Brisbane company reckons the answer is a smaller box, used properly. On a modest 8-core CPU VM, a machine most ...