Volcanic eruptions are unpredictable, but these geologists cracked the code By Rahul Rao / Published June 3, 2022
Gladys West’s mathematical prowess helped make GPS possible By Tatyana Woodall / Published May 27, 2022
The most distant galaxy we’ve ever discovered might have closely followed the Big Bang By Ella Weaver / Published April 7, 2022
Your brain uses different neurons to add and subtract By Maggie Galloway / Published February 21, 2022
The T. rex ‘dynasty’ reigned for more than 125,000 generations By Hannah Seo / Published April 21, 2021
The weirdest things we learned this week: doctors drinking pee and telephones made of cats By PopSci Staff / Published June 19, 2019
Karen Uhlenbeck won the ‘Nobel of math’—but women are still under-represented in the field By Claire Maldarelli / Published March 22, 2019
Tired of pie? Here are 3.14 other math holidays worth celebrating. By Brian Zahn / Published March 14, 2019
Zero is just 1,500 years old. Before it, there was nothing. By Eleanor Cummins / Published January 5, 2019
How long can an event hold humanity’s attention? There’s an equation for that. By Eleanor Cummins / Published December 14, 2018
Navigating our obsession with one-sided objects By David Gunderman and Richard Gunderman/The Conversation / Published September 26, 2018
Mathematicians finally found the perfect bubble blowing formula By Neel V. Patel / Published September 5, 2018
Did scientists discover a new shape? Well, first we have to define ‘shape.’ Also, ‘new.’ By Sara Chodosh / Published August 1, 2018