In the race toward practical quantum computers and networks, photons—fundamental particles of light—hold intriguing possibilities as fast carriers of information at room temperature. Researchers at ...

Now that pandemic restrictions are easing up, people are getting together again. But it’s been a while, so if you and your friends need some help breaking the ice, here’s a mathematical party game you ...

Understanding the network organization of the brain has been a long-standing challenge for neuroscience. In the past decade, developments in graph theory have provided many new methods for ...

Mathematicians have proved that copies of smaller graphs can always be used to perfectly cover larger ones. On January 8, three mathematicians posted a proof of a nearly 60-year-old problem in ...

Researchers have developed a new class of nontoxic, biodegradable solid lubricants that can be used to facilitate seed ...