The May issue of Scientific American takes you on a deep-sea mining mission, explores dark comets and examines an invisible threat to the food we eat ...

As the clouds clear on computational crystal structure prediction, is the technique ready to empower mainstream materials research? James Mitchell Crow reports ...

Carnegie Mellon University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program provides funding for undergraduates to work full time on research projects during the summer. Many students ...

Crows can recognize geometric patterns, suggesting that humans aren't unique in understanding shape structure.

A trio of animal physiologists at the University of Tübingen, in Germany, has found that at least one species of crow has the ability to recognize geometric regularity. In their study published in the ...

Scientists tested crows on their ability to recognize “geometric regularity,” a skill previously assumed to be unique to ...

Now, a new study adds basic geometry to the list of subjects these ... In the study, they could tell the difference between shapes like stars, crescents and squares, as well as between squares ...

In a recent study, researchers made a significant observation of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) phase transition ...

Our brain's remarkable ability to form and store memories has long fascinated scientists, yet most of the microscopic mechanisms behind memory and learning processes remain a mystery.