Tackling math homework can be a daunting task, but with the right tools at your fingertips, it doesn’t have to be. We’ve curated a list of math problem-solving apps that can turn complex equations ...

In 1974, Roger Sperry, based on his seminal studies on the split-brain condition, concluded that math was almost exclusively sustained by the language dominant left hemisphere. The right hemisphere ...

Whether you’re passing secret notes in class or downloading images from a space probe, Reed-Solomon codes offer an ingenious way to embed information and correct for errors. Space exploration requires ...

In 2020, despite the COVID pandemic, scientists authored 6 million peer-reviewed publications, a 10 percent increase compared to 2019. At first glance this big number seems like a good thing, a ...

Article subjects are automatically applied from the ACS Subject Taxonomy and describe the scientific concepts and themes of the article. This method offers an elegant way to sidestep the problem of ...

Upper limb prostheses are specialized tools, and skilled operation is learned by amputees over time. Recently, neural prostheses using implanted peripheral nerve interfaces have enabled advances in ...

Intuitionistic logic, i.e. logic without the principle of excluded middle (P ∨ ¬ P P \vee \neg P), is important for many reasons. One is that it arises naturally as the internal logic of toposes and ...

Bring the power of the Linux command line into your application development process. As a novice software developer, the one thing I look for when choosing a programming language is this: is there a ...

Fungi belong to one of the largest and most diverse groups of living organisms. The evolutionary kinship within a fungal population has so far been inferred mostly from the gene-information–based ...

Our July Insights column was inspired by the mathematics of the phenomenal 20th-century number theorist Srinivasa Ramanujan, whose romantic and tragic life story was the subject of the recent film The ...