By partnering with artificial intelligence (AI), a researcher at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has solved a long-standing physics problem and uncovered the ...

Linux scripters usually know about sed — the stream editor. It has a simple job: transform text as it whizzes from input to output. So if you wanted to solve a maze, this wouldn’t be the tool you’d ...

Trung Phan’s science experiment began with a dare. His boss, Princeton University physicist Robert Austin, challenged him to design a maze that Austin couldn’t solve. To be sure, the challenge was ...

Anyone who has dealt with ants in the kitchen knows that ants are highly social creatures; it's rare to see one alone. Humans are social creatures too, even if some of us enjoy solitude. Ants and ...

For TIME’s Feb. 26 cover package on how to live a longer, fuller life, we created an actual puzzle: a maze on the magazine’s cover. Inside the issue, you’ll discover some of the many healthy-aging ...

An acid-seeking chemical blob can propel itself through a maze, always choosing the shortest way out. Bartosz Grzybowski and his team at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, created this ...