Plant-covered facades can help cool cities and boost biodiversity, a new study now confirms. The study systematically compares these ‘green walls’ with bare walls and natural cliffs. “Green walls can ...

The Markdown package converts CommonMark markup to TeX commands. The functionality is provided both as a Lua module, and as plain TeX, LaTeX, and ConTeXt macro packages that can be used to directly ...

A new proof has brought mathematicians one step closer to understanding the hidden order of those “atoms of arithmetic,” the prime numbers. The primes—numbers that are only divisible by ...

With loans from nearly 50 museums and private collections, nearly all the paintings are displayed in ornate gilded frames—which Van Gogh disliked. Van Gogh’s The Large Plane Trees (Road ...

One of my favorite anecdotes about prime numbers concerns Alexander Grothendieck, who was among the most brilliant mathematicians of the 20th century. According to one account, he was once asked ...