Modern chemistry depends on computation at nearly every stage of the scientific process. Chemists begin by representing molecular structures, then analyze chemical data, investigate molecular behavior and visualize the results of their work. Those tasks require computational tools that support scientific workflows rather than isolated calculations. Today, computation is as fundamental to chemistry as the […] Continue reading at the publisher's website.

June 23, 1988 is when we launched Version 1.0 of Mathematica. Today—almost 38 years later—we’re launching Version 15 of what—in recognition of how far it’s expanded beyond “math”—we now call Wolfram Language. It’s an impressive release, with a lot of new core functionality. It might perhaps seem surprising that after 38 years there’d still be […] Continue reading at the publisher's website.

The Erdős unit distance problem asks for the largest possible number u(n) of unit distances among n points in the plane. This is equivalent to finding maximally dense unit-distance graphs. A recent OpenAI announcement concerns the asymptotic problem: the old n^(1+o(1)) expectation is false. Continue reading at the publisher's website.

In or out of school, the opportunities to learn and grow in your career are endless, and Wolfram is proud to bolster those with educational resources, from courses to textbooks. We are happy to share conversations with two authors whose books cover applications of Wolfram technology in astrophysics and geography, as well as highlight a […] Continue reading at the publisher's website.

Every semester or two, students ask me about the implications of re-compression, especially of JPEG files. Compression comes in two main kinds—Lossless, which is completely invertible, meaning you get exactly what you put in when you decompress, and Lossy which ‘throws out’ things deemed unimportant in some way, so that when you decompress, you get […] Continue reading at the publisher's website.

I am writing a novel. It’s a historical fiction thing. Apparently, that means I need to do a lot of research on what life was like in the 1920s. ​ My problem last night was, my character moves to Boston from Chicago, and in order to give the city texture, we need to introduce characters, […] Continue reading at the publisher's website.

“The cat’s out of the bag,” said the mathematician Andrew Granville, reflecting on the rapid improvement of AI systems. His phrase captures the mood of the moment: by 2025-26, large language models (LLMs) had become powerful enough to move from impressive demonstrations to serious mathematical and scientific use. AI systems reached gold-medal level at the […] Continue reading at the publisher's website.

This tutorial is a follow-up to a recent post by the author herself about archeoastronomical modeling of Central European Neolithic Circular Ditches [1], or roundels, with Wolfram 3D graphical primitives. Here, the focus will be instead on the use of mesh-based primitives from computational geometry to build a realistic 3D model of a roundel recently […] Continue reading at the publisher's website.