In a series of controlled bakes, scientists at the University of Guelph measured how quickly cookies changed in size, color, and moisture — data that helped them map the key physical reactions that ...

It is a central question in neuroscience to understand how different regions of the brain interact, how strongly they "talk" to each other. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Standing in the middle of a field, we can easily forget that we live on a round planet. We’re so small in comparison to the Earth that ...

The Way Between is a quest that applies to the Equilibrium Dungeon. Completing parts of this quest grants additional components for the Praxic Blade. Once completed, you will have the ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

Most people assume democracy can be made perfectly fair with the right voting rules but mathematics says otherwise. Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem proves that no voting system can satisfy all fairness ...

A formula developed by Richard Gott estimates humanity may have between 5,100 and 7.8 million years left based on statistical modeling of past durations. Donald Trump impeachment chances surge amid ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Ready to develop your first AWS Lambda function in Python? It really couldn’t be easier. The AWS ...

Functions are the building blocks of Python programs. They let you write reusable code, reduce duplication, and make projects easier to maintain. In this guide, we’ll walk through all the ways you can ...

When Hannah Cairo was 17 years old, she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a long-standing guess in the field of harmonic analysis about how waves behave on curved surfaces. The conjecture ...