From a tiny sample of tissue no larger than a grain of sand, scientists have come within reach of a goal once thought unattainable: building a complete functional wiring diagram of a portion of the ...

The mathematician Tai-Danae Bradley is using category theory to try to understand both human and AI-generated language.

Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a ...

The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...

A new proof solves the “Kakeya conjecture” in three dimensions, opening up a new set of possibilities for mathematics, from computer science to cryptography ...

By solving part of the Langlands program, a mathematical proof that was long thought to be unachievable, Dennis Gaitsgory ...

The best method that we have for defining color is by using math. Specifically, mind-boggling mathematical models called ...

The MTA unveiled the first new subway map for New York City in more than 45 years on Wednesday morning. This map has ...

Mathematicians from New York University and the University of British Columbia have resolved a decades-old geometric problem, the Kakeya conjecture in 3D, which studies the shape left behind by a ...