This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The brain has a problem. Information can only ...

Geometry Dash is a bright, colorful runner where you are a little geometric shape bouncing its way through mazes of abstract shapes, set to the rhythm of catchy tunes. Does that sound like fun? It is, ...

Most organic molecules have a mirror-image twin. This concept is known as chirality. Yet life only uses one chiral molecule, not the other. The reason for this asymmetry is one of the greatest ...

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Fractal geometry is a field of math born in the 1970s and mainly developed by Benoit Mandelbrot. If you’ve already heard of fractals, you’ve probably seen the picture above. It’s called the Mandelbrot ...