Deblurring Images
Malena Espanol explains how she and others use linear algebra to fix blurry images. Read and watch more...
Exploring Thermodynamics with Billiards
Tim Chumley explains the connections between random billiards and the science of heat and energy transfer. Read and watch more...
Pinpointing How Genes Interact
Mathematics helps researchers analyze datasets containing the DNA of hundreds of thousands of people. Read and watch more...
Securing Data in the Quantum Era
Quantum computers are coming, and mathematicians are working to make sure our data will stay secure. Read and watch more...
Taking the "Temperature" of Languages
A linguist and a physicist talk about how languages change over thousands of years. Read and watch more...
Making Room for Patients
David Scheinker talks about the math involved in hospital operations. Read and watch more...
Fighting Fires
Mark Finney talks about the math involved in modeling and fighting wildfires. Read and watch more...
Describing Dryland Vegetation Patterns
Mary Silber talks about the math of vegetation bands in near-desert ecosystems. Read and watch more...
Mixing Math and Cooking
Eugenia Cheng talks about the mathematics that surrounds us in the kitchen. Read and watch more...
Cracking Open Black Boxes
Cathy O'Neil talks about the unfairness of predictive algorithms. See and hear more...
Resisting the Spread of Disease
Mac Hyman talks about the math of COVID-19 models. See and Hear more...
Solving the Mystery of Wine Legs
Andrea Bertozzi wondered what, exactly, causes wine legs (or tears) to form. Hear what she found out. Hear more...
Picturing Powehi
Fumie Tazaki talks about the math--and collaboration--that went into creating the black hole image. Hear more...
Analyzing Mako Motion
Amy Lang talks about her work figuring out how mako sharks can swim so fast. Hear more...
Unmasking Deepfakes
Hany Farid talks about his work exposing fake videos. Hear more...
Making Beautiful Mathematics
Robert Schneiderman, a math professor and jazz musician, talks about the shared characteristics of the two subjects. Hear more...
Keeping People Alive
Steven Strogatz and Mary Bushman talk about math's role in controlling HIV and understanding malaria, respectively. Hear more...
Making the Earth Flat
Tom Patterson and Bojan ?avrič discuss the projection map they created with Bernhard Jenny. Hear more...
Screening for Autism
Jordan Hashemi talks about the development of an app to screen for autism. Hear more...
Unbunching Buses
S. Ilgin Guler and Vikash V. Gayah explain their research to make bus systems operate better. Hear more...
Winning the Race
Former NASA engineer Christine Darden talks about her career at NASA, and about Hidden Figures. Hear more...
Revolutionizing an Industry
Christopher Brinton and Mung Chian talk about the Netflix Prize. Hear more...
Going Into a Shell
Derek Moulton talks about using math to explain the shapes of seashells. Hear more...
Keeping the Roof On
Stefan Siegmund talks about an invention to protect homes during hurricanes. Hear more...
Scoring with New Thinking
Andy Andres talks about the math used by baseball teams. Hear more...
Unscrambling Eggs
Mary Caswell Stoddard on her discoveries about the shapes of bird eggs. Hear more...
Giving Currency to Not Using Currency
Peter J. Denning explains Bitcoin and blockchains. Hear more...
Making Magical Shapes
Gábor Domokos talks about creating the Gömböc. Hear more...
Countermanding Gerrymandering
Moon Duchin describes how math can be used to identify partisan gerrymandering. Hear more...
Generating Patterns
Michel C. Milinkovitch discusses his surprising discovery about a lizard's skin pattern. Hear more...
Hunting for Planets
Konstantin Batygin explains the math involved in looking for Planet Nine. Hear more...
Designing Better Bicycles
Jim Papadopoulos talks about his years of research analyzing bicycles. Hear more...
Farming Better
Lea Jenkins and Katie Kavanagh talk about their work helping farmers. Hear more...
Maintaining a Balance
Conant Prize winner Daniel Rothman's search for the cause of the end-Permian extinction. Hear more...
Explaining Rainbows
John Adam talks about the fascinating math behind rainbows. Hear more...
Making Art Work
Annalisa Crannell explains perspective and how to use it to enjoy art more. Hear more...
Trimming Taxiing Time
Hamsa Balakrishnan talks about her research into shortening airport runway queues. Hear more...
Dis-playing the Game of Thrones
Andrew Beveridge on using networks to analyze Game of Thrones. Hear more...
Thwarting Poaching
Thomas Snitch on using math to fight poaching. Hear more...
Holding the Lead
Sidney Redner on research into sports leads. Hear more...
Passing Plates
Maarten de Hoop on mantle convection. Hear more...
Adding a New Wrinkle
Norbert Stoop on new research on wrinkles. Hear more...
Piling On and on and on ...
Wesley Pegden talks about the mathematics of sandpiles. Hear more...
Scanning Ancient Sites
Jackson Cothren talks about creating three-dimensional images of historical and archaeological sites. Hear more...
Working Within the System
Cristina Stoica on celestial mechanics. Hear more...
Going Over the Top
Meredith Greer talks about the math involved in designing roller coasters. Hear more...
Treating Tremors
Chris Butson about work to improve the treatment of patients with Parkinson's disease and other disorders. Hear more...
Going Back to the Beginning
Edward Witten talks about math and physics. Hear more...
Providing Power
Michael C. Ferris tells us about power grids. Hear more...
Being Knotty
Colin C. Adams talks about knot theory. Hear more...
Exploiting a Little-Known Force
Lydia Bourouiba talks about her work involving surface tension. Hear more...
Scheduling Sports
Michael Trick talks about making schedules and the math involved. Hear more...
Unifying Diverse Cities
Luís M.A. Bettencourt on how math connects the characteristics of many cities. Hear more...
Making an Attitude Adjustment
Repositioning spacecraft, including a great story about a master's thesis. Hear more...
Getting Inside Your Head
Van Wedeen talks about the structure of the brain's communication pathways. Hear more...
Thinking Outside the Box Score
Muthu Alagappan talks about using topology to analyze basketball. Hear more...
Working Up a Lather
The math of bubbles with James Sethian and Frank Morgan. Hear more...
Freeing Up Architecture
Math's role in the design of modern structures. Hear more...
Finding Friends
How math is used to understand networks. Hear more...
Catching and Releasing
What does math have to do with juggling? Find out...
Forecasting Crime
How does math help curb crime? Find out...
Putting the Auto in Automobile
How does math figure in to cars and intersections of the future? Find out...
Getting a Handle on Obesity
How is math used to analyze the worldwide obesity epidemic? Hear More...
Being on the Cutting Edge
Hear how math is used to find good cuts of gemstones. Hear More...
Keeping Things in Focus
Hear about uses of the curves called conic sections. Hear More...
Harnessing Wind Power
Hear how math helps design wind turbines. Hear More...
Keeping the Beat
Hear how math helps analyze heart rhythms. Hear More...
Sustaining the Supply Chain
Hear how math helps keep supplies moving in a disaster. Hear More...
Answering the Question, and Vice Versa
Hear how math helped create Watson, winner of the Jeopardy! Challenge. Hear More...
Sounding the Alarm
Hear how math is used to help warn about tsunamis. Hear More...
Putting Another Cork in It
ESPN?s Sport Science called on math prof Tim Chartier and former math major Daniel Martin to see if a triple cork was possible. Hear them talk about their investigation. Hear More...
Assigning Seats
Jennifer Wilson talks about determining the size of state delegations in the U.S. House of Representatives Hear More...
Knowing Rogues
Listen to Walter Craig talk about rogue waves. Hear More...
Creating Something out of (Next to) Nothing
Emmanuel Candès speaks about the exciting new field of compressed sensing. Hear More...
Getting at the Truth
Patrick Ball talks about his work investigating human rights abuses. Hear More...
Analyzing Data
Robert Ghrist explains how topology helps make sense of large data sets. Hear More...
Predicting Climate
Juan Meza talks about the many ways math is used to understand climate change. Hear More...
Matching Vital Needs
Sommer Gentry explains how math can increase the number of living-donor kidney transplants and save lives. Hear More...
Pulling Out (from) All the Stops
Hear Chris Solarz and Matt Ferrisi describe how they used graph theory to visit every New York subway stop in record time. Hear More...
Working It Out
A math professor solves a mystery about the opening chord of the Beatles' "A Hard Day's Night." Hear More...
Improving Stents
Math improves the design and materials used for stents. Hear More...
Restoring Genius
Uncovering and discovering lost works of Archimedes. Hear More...
Steering Towards Efficiency
Math helps NASCAR vehicles, and yours, run effectively. Hear More...
Getting It Together
Analyzing collective motion in animals. Hear More...
Hearing a Master?s Voice
The spools of wire above contain the only known live recording of the legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie. Hear More...
Going with the Floes
A branch of mathematics called percolation theory helps explain how salt water travels through sea ice. Hear More...
Bending It Like Bernoulli
Hear how computational fluid dynamics is used to analyze soccer kicks. Hear More...
Tripping the Light - Fantastic!
Invisibility is no longer confined to fiction. Hear More...
Finding Fake Photos
Actually, they weren?t caught together at all ? their images were put together with software. Hear More...
Putting Music on the Map
A recent mathematical breakthrough uses topology to represent musical chords as points in a space called an orbifold. Hear More...
Pinpointing Style
Mathematics is not just numbers and brute force calculation ? there is considerable art and elegance to the subject. Hear More...
Unearthing Power Lines
Votes are cast by the full membership in each house of Congress, but much of the important maneuvering occurs in committees. Hear More...
Predicting Storm Surge
Storm surge is often the most devastating part of a hurricane. Hear More...
Targeting Tumors
Geometry, partial differential equations, and integer linear programming all allow doctors to inflict maximum damage to tumors. Hear More...
Folding for Fun and Function
Origami paper folding may not seem like a subject for mathematical investigation or one with sophisticated applications. Hear More...
Making Votes Count
The outcome of elections is often determined more by the voting procedure than by the votes themselves. Hear More...
Making movies come alive
Many movie animation techniques are based on mathematics. Hear More...
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