This summer, sprinters from around the world will gather in Rio to compete in the 100-meter dash. Should you choose to tune in, you'll be treated to electrifying race after electrifying race. With ...

Last week at the Newton Blog, my colleague Ross Pomeroy discussed a famous puzzle known as one of Zeno's Paradoxes. He presented the resolution of the problem of fitting infinitely many things into a ...

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

How many atoms are there in the observable universe? Current estimates point to a number we would write as 1 followed by 80 zeroes, or 10 80. If you peered inside each of these atoms and counted their ...