Idea person: Glen Rosenbaum, a partner at the law firm Vinson & Elkins LLP. Big idea: Showcase history through model train room. Where it came from: In the early '50s, when Rosenbaum was three or four ...

Here are some numbers that help explain why jaws drop at the first sight of the model-train set that tech entrepreneur Peter Hambling is having built in the basement of his Medina family home: • The ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing. Take addition. It’s a straightforward operation: One of the first ...

Set tests belong to a class of statistical regression models that enable testing for statistical dependencies between sets of genetic variants and a quantitative trait of interest. Within the linear ...

A team of four prominent mathematicians, including two Fields medalists, proved a conjecture described as a “holy grail of additive combinatorics.” Within a month, a loose collaboration verified it ...

A new proof illuminates the hidden patterns that emerge when addition becomes impossible. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing. Take addition. It’s a straightforward ...