Discovered by an amateur mathematician in 2022, this strange construct can tile an infinite surface without repeating. But ...

The “hat” tile is a mathematical wonder. Discovered by amateur mathematician David Smith in 2022, it can be used to cover every square inch of an endless bathroom floor (or any other surface) ...

Safari Technology Preview 248 delivers native BigInt Math as a JavaScript built-in for the first time, eliminating ...

The 2026 Fields Medals recognize breakthroughs in the math of messy fluids, tangled knots, spinning pencils, and more ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In January 2025 I was in Santa Clara, California writing some JavaScript to perform some reporting. I wanted to be ...

In modern web application development, the accurate manipulation of numerical data underpins every function, from dynamic changes in user interfaces to physics simulations and complex business logic.

A Mathematician with early access to XAI Grok 4.20, found a new Bellman function for one of the problems he had been working on with my student N. Alpay. Not an Erdős problem, but original research.

There is a rule in mathematics that feels so obvious it barely seems worth stating. Yet accepting it leads to objects with no size, spheres that duplicate themselves, and sets that cannot be measured ...

Thirty years ago today, Netscape Communications and Sun Microsystems issued a joint press release announcing JavaScript, an object scripting language designed for creating interactive web applications ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

If you’ve ever played peekaboo with your little one, you’ve helped them work on object permanence. Your baby is learning that people and objects exist even when they can’t see or hear them. Object ...