The theorists who first created the mathematics that describe the behavior of the recently announced "invisibility cloak" have revealed a new analysis that may extend the current cloak's powers, ...

Researchers demonstrate that our brain need only perform a few lightning-fast statistical calculations to detect key properties of unknown objects. From a child snapping Legos together to a pickpocket ...

When Lisa Piccirillo solved a decades-old mystery about the “Conway knot,” she had to overcome the knot’s uncanny ability to hoodwink some of the most powerful tools mathematicians have devised. Known ...