For Mr. Santos, math can also inspire ideas about structures that have already been built — a new way to see and appreciate ...

Most of the big ideas in science have the decency to confine themselves to one or two disciplines. Evolution is strictly in the biological realm. E=mc 2 wouldn't be caught dead outside physics. And ...

This week, a centuries-old geometric exercise that is easier than it looks, and a disputed division of a soft drink between a ...

The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper ...

The Greek philosopher Plato wrote about Socrates challenging a student with the "doubling the square" problem in about 385 B.C.E. When asked to double the area of a square ... means it was improvising ...

Hala, a Saudi Arabia-based fintech company, raised $157 million in one of the largest-ever funding rounds for an early-stage startup in the Middle East. The round was led by TPG, and Sanabil, a unit ...

Skydio, a San Mateo-based tech company, kicked off its Ascend 2025 event on Tuesday in Aptos. The company displayed its new drone technology, showing how it can assist first responders in tight ...

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President Donald Trump endorsed unsubstantiated claims about a link between Tylenol and autism Monday and made a variety of outlandish claims about childhood vaccinations, offering perhaps his most ...

Large scale destruction of trees—deforestation—affects ecosystems, climate, and even increases risk for zoonotic diseases spreading to humans. A logger takes down a large tree at the Tuxekan logging ...