Across Baltimore, in more than 115 seemingly ordinary homes, seniors are warehoused in unlicensed assisted living facilities ...

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For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

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Centuries before other galaxies were known to exist, astronomers called them “spiral nebulas.” Today the defunct term still ...

The human eye is drawn to the rhythmic beauty of tiled patterns, which occur abundantly in nature. A database, collecting and classifying tile-like patterns in biology, aims to be a resource and ...

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...

Mathematicians have discovered a pattern known as the einstein tile — a single shape that can cover an infinite plane without ...

New research from the University of Waterloo is making inroads on one of the biggest problems in theoretical computer science ...

In this excerpt from the new book 'Speak Data,' the Wharton professor and best-selling author shares his thoughts on how we ...

Most of us have little trouble working out how many milliliters are in 2.4 liters of water (it's 2,400). But the same can't be said when we're asked how many minutes are in 2.4 hours (it's 144).

Biologists have spent generations trying to explain what controls the speed of life. You may already be familiar with the classic idea that growth rises with more nutrients and then steadies. The ...