As “the first nerd to enter poker,” he helped transform a game long ruled by intuition into one based on game theory, ...

There is an exciting future on the horizon—one in which your thoughts could directly control electronic devices you use every ...

Archytas of Tarentum, who was born around the year 435 BC in Taranto, Italy, was another in a long line of polymaths from ...

Claude Shannon, known as the Father of Information Theory, transformed the modern digital world through his groundbreaking 1937 thesis and 1948 paper that defined how information is measured and ...

Working in secret for more than two years, a group of mathematicians has set out to resolve of the longest and most bitter ...

Other scientists have investigated the idea of a hidden structure further. David Bohm, a 20th-century physicist, built a ...

Seleucus of Seleucia was an ancient astronomer who defended heliocentrism, arguing that Earth orbits the Sun and rotates on ...

The incompleteness theorem is accepted as part of the mathematical canon today, but columnist Jacob Aron says it was a ...

Pioneering computer scientist who devised the Quicksort algorithm, ways of verifying programs and guards against hackers ...

Crystals, bacterial colonies, flame fronts: the growth of surfaces was first described in the 1980s by the ...

Markets routinely absorb bad news every day—even missile strikes and sanctions threats—with only mild volatility that ...

We just want a fair shot. We’re not asking for anything special, no special privileges, but what they promised from the very ...