He used his genius at maths to crack the Nazis' Enigma code, helping speed up the Allies' victory. But before that, Alan Turing turned his mind to a less vital but potentially more profitable task – ...

SAN DIEGO — A mathematical tale of how tigers got their stripes and leopards acquired spots has undergone a slight revision. In 1952, computer scientist and polymath Alan Turing devised a theory about ...

WE ALL know the world can look weird and wonderful under the microscope, but who knew cells could look this pretty? Actually, you won’t find these psychedelic blobs in any living creature on Earth, ...

A key step in showing that incompleteness is natural and pervasive was taken by Alan M. Turing in 1936, when he demonstrated that there can be no general procedure to decide if a self-contained ...

When Alan Turing was born 100 years ago, on June 23, 1912, a computer was not a thing—it was a person. Computers, most of whom were women, were hired to perform repetitive calculations for hours on ...

From the clown fish to leopards, skin colour patterns in animals arise from microscopic interactions among coloured cells that obey equations discovered by the mathematician Alan Turing. Today, ...