Trust feels genuinely difficult right now—and for many of us, for very good reason. Something has shifted. The certainties we relied on feel less certain. The systems we counted on feel less reliable.

The work of numerous mathematicians culminated in the discovery of hyperbolic geometry; today, thanks to virtual reality, it is possible to glimpse it beyond its formulas ...

As you raise your preschooler, you will also naturally talk about ideas like inside and outside, left and right, middle, above and below, and top and bottom. You may help her notice what is the same ...

Out in the Kuiper Belt, the massive doughnut of debris beyond Neptune, about one in 10 kilometer-scale objects have surprised ...

One ball on a Plinko board is unpredictable. Drop a thousand and they form a near-perfect bell curve—one of math’s most powerful ideas for 150+ years.

In late winter, the zodiacal light is visible in the evening in the Northern Hemisphere (false dusk) and in the pre-dawn ...