We love monochromatic subway tile as much as the next person; it’s classic for a reason. But lately designers are arranging ...

For obvious reasons, it would be useful to predict when an earthquake is going to occur. It has long been suspected that large quakes in the Himalayas follow a fairly predictable cycle, but nature, as ...

Abstract: We consider multi-variate signals spanned by the integer shifts of a set of generating functions with distinct frequency profiles and the problem of reconstructing them from samples taken on ...

This post is Part 1 of a series. In an earlier post, I explored how meaning might arise in a physical, meaningless universe—drawing in part on physicist Carlo Rovelli’s relational account, which ...

Sam Darnold would've played a starring role in a reimagined Super Bowl Shuffle. Steph Chambers / Getty Images Welcome to the Opening Line, where we look at ways to have a little fun while identifying ...

If you’re one of the 28 percent of Americans who’ve shared an intimate relationship with an AI chatbot, we might have some bad news. Freshly reported testimony from the Data Worker’s Inquiry — an ...

When we started mapping how people connect, we expected random patterns but what emerged was anything but random. The web of relationships formed a structure that looked intentional, almost engineered ...

Scroll down for a transcription of this episode. What happens when imagination meets perception, and ordinary objects come alive? We explore the science of pareidolia. Summary: Our minds are wired to ...