A long-standing mystery about repeating patterns in a two-dimensional mathematical game has been solved after more than 50 years with the discovery of two final pieces in the puzzle. The result is ...

John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of every possible length. In 1969, the British mathematician John Conway devised a beguilingly simple ...

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. — Every Tuesday night at the Foursquare Church in Federal Way, Pastor Ron Walker delivers a short sermon and leads a brief prayer. Young men gather around him in a circle, linking ...

The 2025 One Hertz Challenge asks you to build a project that does something once every second. While that has inspired a lot of clock and timekeeping builds, we’re also seeing some that do entirely ...

When I was a kid, The Game of Life was one of my favorite family board games. We had both the tabletop and digital versions and would regularly play together. There was something so intriguing about ...