Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More ...

Long before anyone wrote down a number, early villagers were painting flowers with a precision that looks suspiciously like ...

A newly-developed mathematical method can detect geometric structure in neural activity in the brain. The method is a first step toward developing a new mathematical toolkit to uncover the structure ...