In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a ...

Researchers discovered that our ability to recognize trees in art is linked to a mathematical principle called the branch ...

The Hairy Ball theorem, proved by Henri Poincaré in 1885, demonstrates that it's impossible to create a perfectly smooth hair ...

A cosmic filament, 3 million light-years long, has been directly imaged for the first time — offering a new glimpse into the ...