W hen most people think of shapes, they imagine a triangle, a rectangle, or maybe even a fancier- sounding rhombus or trapezoid. But to mathematicians, shapes encompass a vast universe of surprising ...

It all starts with something called the Kakeya conjecture. A “conjecture” is a math guess—an idea that seems true, but nobody ...

No one in the Trump White House wanted to take credit for the administration’s “extremely bad” tariff math, which has been ...

But the math behind them is not wholly invented or nonsensical, despite what some online have claimed. In fact, for possibly ...

We’re still fairly early into the year, but developer Dogubomb’s labyrinthine experience is already one of the most critically acclaimed games of 2025. Blue Prince is an engrossing amalgamation of ...

Some of our knowledge about the Pearl-Manuscript is quite new: Spectroscopy has revealed that the volume originally had simple line drawings ... obsessed with math and geometry and numbers ...

A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be created in exotic materials.

The meat of Blue Prince is the drafting mechanic you use to explore the house: You start each day with a limited number of “steps” that are spent whenever you go through a door, and each time you open ...

An MIT professor discovered that the Pearl Manuscript from the 1300s has more to it than just four unconnected medieval poems. Professor Arthur Bahr found that along with the tale “Sir Gawain ...

MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed to page ...