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The outer layers of the sun’s atmosphere are a blistering million degrees hotter than its surface. The hidden culprit? Magnetic activity.

Recursion builds bridges between ideas from across different math classes and illustrates the power of creative mathematical thinking.

The surprisingly subtle geometry of a familiar game shows how quickly math gets complicated.

If Anna beats Benji in a game and Benji beats Carl, will Anna beat Carl?

The cerebellum is responsible for far more than coordinating movement. New techniques reveal that it is, in fact, a hub of sensory and emotional processing in the brain.

Modern scientists aren’t content with predicting how life evolves. They want to shape it.

How Fermat’s less famous "little theorem" got mathematicians young and old to play with prime-like Carmichael numbers.

The discovery earlier this year of the “hat” tile marked the culmination of hundreds of years of work into tiles and their symmetries.

The spatial intuition behind a three-point turn offers an on-ramp to a century-old geometry problem.