Among the first things a newborn child is presented with are objects of play: a rattle to shake, a toy to crinkle, a stuffed animal to squeeze, blocks to stack. Through these playthings, the child ...

The Microbiology Society's Microbiology Outlooks, launched in 2025, has published its inaugural article: "When Theory Meets Genomics: Reconciling Game Dynamics and Within-Host Evolution." The new ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine you had a friend who gave different answers to the same question, depending on how you asked it. “What’s the capital of Peru?” ...

Cost sharing in network design has evolved into a multidisciplinary field that marries principles of cooperative game theory with practical network optimisation problems. This approach is vital for ...

Isaac Asimov excelled at predicting the future. In one of his early science fiction stories, he introduced pocket calculators decades before you could buy them at Radio Shack. In a later book, he ...