SAN DIEGO — A mathematical tale of how tigers got their stripes and leopards acquired spots has undergone a slight revision. In 1952, computer scientist and polymath Alan Turing devised a theory about ...
Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly ...
Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...
A Japanese plant species with a peculiar leaf pattern recently revealed unexpected insight into how almost all plants control their leaf arrangement. Leaves can be enjoyed for their shade, autumn ...
More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his astonishing formulas for π in notebooks in India and England, ...