Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the ...

We’ve all experienced that magic moment when, after countless frustrating hours of experimentation and racking your brain, the object of our attention starts working. The 3D printer finally produces ...

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly ...

Like most engineers, I find myself drawn to complex puzzles. And the more complicated the problem, the more intrigued I am to solve it. This love for problem-solving was nurtured at a very young age.

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

Albert Einstein famously said, “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” In turbulent, uncertain, novel and ambiguous (TUNA) times, one skill that will never ...

As I have mentioned in previous posts, cognitive behavioral therapy is more than challenging negative, automatic thoughts. There is a whole behavioral piece of this therapy that focuses on what people ...

Locating the source of an electromagnetic interference (EMI) problem is often like trying to find a needle in a haystack. But despite the difficulty, it's not impossible. Although a number of ...

FireWire: 128 GB limit; recovery discounts Apparently under the same umbrella of FireWire problems we've been covering since Panther's release, some users are reporting that 160 GB and 200 GB drives ...

MacFixIt reader Dennis Henley ran into a problem with QuarkXpress 6.0 and a Mac OS 9 PPD that he solved by removing the resource fork from old driver. He writes: "Unlike InDesign and other OS X apps, ...

The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of top leaders and experts who pay dues for access to peer learning, thought leadership, and more. BY Ophir Ronen Across ...