More than a century after Srinivasa Ramanujan scribbled his astonishing formulas for π in notebooks in India and England, ...

The most sweeping rule changes since 2014 will redefine how Formula One cars look, sound and race. As new manufacturers arrive, the competitive order could be turned on its head.

The big thinkers at Aperture analyze the most complex words in the English language and their meanings. Trump wins major court ruling on National Guard America’s biggest oil field is turning into a ...

A research team at Duke University has developed a new AI framework that can uncover simple, understandable rules that govern some of the most complex dynamics found in nature and technology. The AI ...

When a delicate object crashes onto the floor, most people expect it to shatter into several pieces. What they might not know, however, is that the sizes of those fragments—whether from a broken plate ...

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti. When you ...

The English language is a treasure trove of words that not only sound beautiful but also convey complex, nuanced meanings. You may never have heard of them, let alone be able to pronounce them but ...

Today, the U.S. Navy operates at a scale of technical sophistication that would have seemed like sci-fi just a generation ago. And this isn't pursued solely as our "carry a big stick" doctrine either, ...

The team has improved the capabilities of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs), a type of artificial intelligence that incorporates physical laws into the learning process. Researchers from the ...

Some television antagonists are defined by a single bad act, then there are the characters whose choices keep reshaping the story with every episode. Their histories, loyalties, and private rules ...

Everyone loves a good villain. The best video games include really good villains, because a lackluster antagonist really ruins the game’s chances of being great. It’s cool when a villain is purely, ...

From unstable airframes to a lack of safety features, not all pilots in the US Air Force are qualified to fly these aircraft. Military aviators are uniquely skilled individuals, operating their ...