Have a good mind for computational problem-solving? Fancy netting a cool $1 million for your efforts? Then the University of St. Andrews and the Clay Mathematics Institute sure have the competition ...

Check out the chess board above—looks wrong, right? If you’ve ever played chess, you know something's amiss, here. For one thing, someone chose to exchange a pawn for another bishop instead of a queen ...

A computer made from DNA that can solve basic chess and sudoku puzzles could one day, if scaled up, save vast amounts of energy over traditional computers when it comes to tasks like training ...