Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like mathematics. Recent analysis of 8,000‑year‑old botanical designs suggests ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden mathematical secret inside the leaves of the Chinese money plant: a naturally occurring geometric pattern known as a Voronoi diagram, something typically associated ...

Steven Strogatz, Winokur Distinguished Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and Mathematics at Cornell University We asked Strogatz — a 2023 top award winner of the National Academies’ ...

Termite mounds are remarkable structures that regulate temperature, balance airflow and maintain structural stability in some of Earth’s harshest climates. And like other irregular, disordered systems ...

Meet the math professor whose algorithm helped make our digital world possible. Meet the math professor whose work helped make our digital world possible. Duke University mathematics professor Ingrid ...

Welcome to SEC Roundup, a bimonthly video series by former Securities and Exchange Commission senior trial counsels Nick Morgan and Tom Zaccaro, founders of the nonprofit advocacy group Investor ...