Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...

The major veins of Chinese money plant leaves form what's called a Voronoi diagram. It might be caused by a plant-growth hormone that emanates in waves from developing leaves' pores ...

As co-chief executive of the start-up Prometheus, the Amazon founder is using A.I. to improve how devices ranging from computers to jet engines are made. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco ...

A new study has used global storm-resolving simulations and machine learning to create an algorithm that can deal separately with two different scales of cloud organization: those resolved by a ...

Justin Helman didn’t get his dream acceptance from the University of Florida. But that isn’t stopping him from pursuing the classic college experience there. The recent high-school graduate from Park ...

A dead phone battery is usually just an inconvenience. When it's a phone you've also lost, it starts to feel like a genuine disaster, because the app you'd normally use to find it requires the phone ...

In 2022, global production of construction materials accounted for more than 7% of total carbon emissions. But how many of ...

It was only a passing reference to a security finding about AI giant Anthropic’s Fable 5 model on a call between Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and officials from the Trump administration. But it set off a ...

The 2026 FIFA World Cup starts on Thursday, and 48 nations will compete for the biggest prize on the planet. Whether you're a die-hard supporter who has been counting down the days since the last ...

Engineers at a deep underground research facility noticed something strange during major rainstorms: airflow underground sometimes reversed direction. Using new sensors and mathematical modeling, they ...

A peer-reviewed study published in npj Heritage Science has applied whole-object metrology to ancient Egyptian stone vessels and found concentricity and surface tolerances that align more closely with ...

A new computer model developed by US researchers could reduce the amount of material for bridges and buildings by up to 90 percent and make future structures far more efficient. The approach was ...