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Math isn't just for "math kids" — it's for everyone, says learning expert Shalinee Sharma. She outlines four simple steps to transform your approach to math, creating an environment where any kid can…

What if your $1 donation could result in a $100 contribution to a cause you believe in? That's the promise of quadratic funding: a new kind of crowdfunding model that uses math to distribute funds…

Could math help make American democracy more responsive to the people? From detecting gerrymandered districts to predicting the impact of alternative election methods like ranked-choice voting,…

It has been thought of as many things: a pointlike object, an excitation of a field, a speck of pure math that has cut into reality. But never has physicists’ conception of a particle changed more…

If a shape has equal sides with 90 degree angles between them then it's a square, right? Well, not quite...

If you’ve ever tripped up over the term ‘Bayesian’ while reading up on data or tech, fear not. Strip away the jargon and notation, and even the mathematics-averse can make sense of the simple yet…

Solve these puzzle questions to level up your Wordle game.

When a theory breaks, you learn how to build it better.

«ASK WEIRD QUESTIONS Einstein had a wild imagination. He asked himself questions like: What would he feel if he rode an elevator through outer space? What would he see if he chased a beam of light?»

A lot goes into the successful 'earworms,' including mathematical symmetry.

Math anxiety discourages people from pursuing the subject, but the benefits of math literacy extend far beyond numbers and equations.

Neuromorphic computers modeled after the human brain can now solve the complex equations behind physics simulations — something once thought possible only with energy-hungry supercomputers. The…

Listen to this article by clicking here.Short of time? Click here to read the key takeaways!🎯 A 71% increase can sound alarming, but without context, it can mislead. In the aspirin example, the relative increase is 71%, yet the absolute risk only rises from 0.18% to 0.31%. Both figures are correct, but they create very different impressions of the underlying risk. 🔍 Relative and absolute percentages answer different questions. Absolute change measures the direct difference between starting an

Many adults struggle with math, a gap that often begins in school. A new study offers a potential solution: a painless brain stimulation technique that was shown to significantly improve learning,…

Algebra is an Arabic word. To understand its origin, we must go back to the time and place of the Arabian Nights, during the Islamic Golden Age, when the Islamic Empire was transformed into a milit…

An AI system developed by Google DeepMind, Google's premiere AI research lab, has surpassed the average gold medalist in solving geometry problems in an international mathematics competition.

ChatGPT-generated math hints led to significant learning gains, performing as well as human tutor hints and better than no hints. Initial ChatGPT errors were high but reducible, especially in algebra

Why do machines learn? Even in the recent past, this would have been a ridiculous question, as machines — i.e., computers — were only capable of executing whatever instructions a human programmer had…

The links between math, music and art have been explored for thousands of years. Sarah Hart is now turning a mathematical eye to literature.

One of the major milestones of our early childhoods comes when we learn, for the first time, how to successfully tie our own shoes. As most of us learned, there are three key steps to making that…

In work that has been 30 years in the making, mathematicians have proved a major part of a profound mathematical vision called the Langlands program.

How hard is it to prove that problems are hard to solve? Meta-complexity theorists have been asking questions like this for decades. A string of recent results has started to deliver answers.

...and what happens to the body when you spend a year in space?