One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

When my cofounder and I were accepted into a competitive startup accelerator program in fall 2025, we applied with an ambitious idea: to build an “AI scientist” for machine learning research. What ...

Researchers used algebra and geometry together to solve an old random walk problem. Random walk ideas have informed everything from biology to video games. This team identified a key geometry idea ...

FARGO — Fargo police insist they are not acting in the role of “Big Brother” with their use of Flock cameras. Multiple agencies near the Twin Cities have canceled their contracts with the company, but ...

Although landlocked, Los Llanos, Guatemala has become like an island. Located just 19 miles south of the country’s capital, the village has become virtually inaccessible thanks to deteriorating roads ...

Ethylene—the chemical used to create much of the world’s plastics—has a carbon problem that Professor Ted Sargent is working to solve.

Problem solving is the mental process of analyzing a situation, learning what options are available, and then choosing the alternative that will result in the desired outcome or some other selected ...

Explore advanced physics with **“Modeling Sliding Bead On Tilting Wire Using Python | Lagrangian Explained.”** In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to simulate the motion of a bead sliding on a ...

Have you ever worked with a group of people trying to solve a problem? There are different opinions, different considerations, and each person’s perspective provides a different angle on the problem.

Sociology helps you understand how people, institutions, and communities shape the world we live in—and how you can help change it. At UW, sociology majors develop a strong foundation in research, ...