School’s almost here, which means so’s the task of buying school supplies. If you’re a high school or college student—or if you’re buying stuff for someone who is—one of the items on that list is ...

Like all epidemics, the COVID-19 pandemic escalates in a crisis of individual and collective character. While in some ways crises bring people together, they also expose and stress systemic flaws and ...

Two computer scientists found — in the unlikeliest of places — just the idea they needed to make a big leap in graph theory. This past October, as Jacob Holm and Eva Rotenberg were thumbing through a ...

In just three pages, a Russian mathematician has presented a better way to color certain types of networks than many experts thought possible. A paper posted online last month has disproved a ...