How did last weekend go – did you win or lose? Johnny Dineen: I showed a marginal loss for the week, despite having a big lead going into Sunday. The secret to long-term success is to try not to dwell ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research ...

Imagine living sometime around the early 1600s. You're standing on the deck of a wooden ship. The wind's biting, the sky's endless. And your captain's yelling, "Drop the log!" Back then, before sonar ...

When it’s time for a fencing match, all that matters is you, your sword, and the competition. The intense focus is one of the main reasons one-time Olympic medalist Miles Chamley-Watson loves the ...

In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research laid the foundation for modern knot theory, was trying to find a ...

Scanning the crowd at a fancy soiree may reveal a wide array of neckties, each fastened with a highly complex mathematical object masquerading as fashion. An entire field of mathematics is devoted to ...

A massive surge in Bitcoin Knots nodes hints at a brewing civil war in Bitcoin. If tensions escalate, the price could be the first casualty. Bitcoin Knots, first released by developer Luke Dashjr in ...

This protective pooch was on patrol recently, barking an alert and sniffing out a strolling passer-by through a fence knot hole at the corner of George Street and Oregon Avenue in Butte.

Here on land, the speed of a vehicle is recorded in either miles per hour or kilometers per hour. In either case, determining how fast you're moving on land is fairly simple because you can see ...

Humans are pretty good at guessing whether a towering stack of dishes in the sink will topple over or where a pool ball will go when a cue hits it. We evolved this kind of physical reasoning to ...