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Several real-life pathogens can change a host’s behavior against their will. Here’s what we know about these zombie-like infections.

The critical brain hypothesis suggests that neural networks do their best work when connections are not too weak or too strong.

Whether you’re passing secret notes in class or downloading images from a space probe, Reed-Solomon codes offer an ingenious way to embed information and correct for errors.

Making sure our machines understand the intent behind our instructions is an important problem that requires understanding intelligence itself.

Proving that two polygons have the same area can be as easy as cutting them up and rearranging the pieces.

Albert Einstein’s ideas about space-time aren’t exactly intuitive, and they aren’t exactly Einstein’s, either.

Far from being an abstract mathematical curiosity, knot theory has driven many findings in math and beyond.

Even though we’ve learned a lot about this relative of smallpox, some mysteries remain due to a lack of political will.

Of all the endless questions children and mathematicians have asked about infinity, one of the biggest has to do with its size.