Quanta Magazine

A Close-Up View Reveals the ‘Melting’ Point of an Infinite Graph

In 2008, the mathematician Oded Schramm died in a hiking accident in the Cascade mountains some 50 miles east of Seattle. Though he was just 46 years old, he had constructed entirely new areas of ...
Quanta Magazine

Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph

If you’ve been making the same commute for a long time, you’ve probably settled on what seems like the best route. But “best” is a slippery concept. Perhaps one day there’s an accident or road closure ...
The Conversation

3 questions to ask yourself next time you see a graph, chart or map

Carson MacPherson-Krutsky receives funding from The National Science Foundation. She is the co-owner of HazardReady, LLC. Since the days of painting on cave walls, people have been representing ...
Reuters

Fact Check: 'Hockey Stick' graph of rising global temperatures is accurate depiction of climate change

A video viewed thousands of times online disputes the reliability of an authoritative graph showing cooling global temperatures over 1,000 years and rapid warming in the 20th century. A speaker in the ...