Today’s jigsaw puzzles don’t always look like yesteryears’, and that’s for the best: Not all of us care for scenery, birds and flowers as much as we like Disney and Pixar, for instance. Let’s not be ...

A physicist at the University of Illinois devised an immersive game in which teams solve science puzzles to unlock a mystery — before it’s too late. By Kenneth Chang URBANA, Ill. — It was 10 p.m., and ...

NPR's Robert Krulwich has been unraveling complex science questions for years. He's tackled the discovery of laughing gas, nuclear detonations in space, how crows recognize people's faces and why ...

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Professor Uehara from JAIST works at the intersection of theoretical computer science, discrete mathematics, and the art of solving puzzles. His research strives to understand the computational ...

Imagine a warehouse with several vertical stacks of crates. Standing on top of one of the stacks, James Bond has to reach a particular crate. He can’t touch the electrified warehouse floor, so he must ...

Computer science experts have designed a system to encrypt software so that it only allows someone to use a program as intended while preventing any deciphering of the code behind it. This is known in ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American As part of my series of interviews with ...

Erik and Martin Demaine, a father-and-son team of “algorithmic typographers,” have confected an entire suite of mathematically inspired typefaces. By Siobhan Roberts The verb “puzzle” — to perplex or ...