Mehtaab Sawhney, who joined Columbia last year, enjoys the thorny work of proving a seemingly straightforward statement of ...

Bringing elementary students outside for math lessons provides a welcome change of pace and a chance for new activities.

The world-famous mathematician Alan Turing found a possible mechanism for iconic animal patterns thanks to differential ...

Researchers have found an answer to a centuries-old floral mystery, using a mathematical model to explain how striped tulips ...

Pushing the limits of structured light, applied physicists report a new type of optical vortex beam that not only twists as it travels but also changes in different parts at different rates to create ...

However, the machines could prove to be particularly suited to solving problems in mathematics — especially ... are typically calculated from patterns of crossings — how the threads in a ...

These colors and patterns are an iconic representation of the reefs, highlighting the balance of form and function in nature’s designs. A couple of monarch butterfly’s. Image by lilkar via ...

The study, published in Nature Communications ... However, it remains unclear what drives and regulates the global patterns of color variation over a long time scale. A research team studied ...

Such a connection between the smallest and largest scales in the cosmos is highly unusual in physics and suggests that dark energy is deeply tied to the quantum nature of space-time itself.

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"It is my own personal truth, and you can do your own math." Although she doesn't specify ... abuse comes in all shapes and sizes. This vicious pattern has robbed me of any sense of self-esteem ...