Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...

Olivia Newton-John thought her ex-boyfriend, Patrick McDermott, was either “killed” or “drowned” when he went missing off the coast of Los Angeles 21 years ago. Matthew Hild covers the cameraman’s ...

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Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then quietly ...

David Cutler is in the spotlight for his work on a tasty-sounding mathematics problem. In January, the New York Times featured a research paper authored by Cutler and Neil Sloane, the founder of The ...

When the Miami Dolphins released Tyreek Hill, it sent shockwaves through the league. The wide receiver had been the centerpiece of Miami’s explosive offense, the vertical threat who helped unlock the ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

When was the last time it felt like New York City was headed in the right direction? As federal funding for housing, schools, and food security gets cut, New York’s leaders are facing crises of their ...

Microplastics seem to be everywhere – in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat. They have turned up in human organs, blood, testicles, placentas and even brains. While the full ...

Regardless of how you spent the final days of summer, the return to work can mean coming face to face once again with any sticky problems you pushed aside previously. Now though, they’re looming and ...