Imagine you have a list of 1s, 2s, 3s, and 4s from which you want to find patterns in the form 1-2-3-4 or 4-3-2-1. The list is about 100,000 items long.<BR><BR>For ...

How did you learn the mathematical formula for pi? It was likely the way I learned it. I was told to commit the value pi = 3.14 to memory along with the formula to calculate the area of a circle.

A new proof marks the first progress in decades on a problem about how order emerges from disorder. In February, Sah and Sawhney announced yet another joint accomplishment. With James Leng, a graduate ...

For centuries, humans have assumed that our thinking errors set us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. From misjudging ...

A viral optical illusion challenges you to find the hidden number '788' amidst a crowd of '789's' in just 7 seconds. This ...