A group of middle school girls is puzzling over a pie chart about reading habits in the US. Their “math designer” stands at the front of the room, encouraging students to share what they “notice and ...

A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of botanical figures were far more than decorative; they were mathematical.

Ken Ono’s career as one of the world’s most prominent mathematicians has taken him to places that he never could have fathomed. The renowned University of Virginia professor regularly ventures far ...

Like previous parody songs, the lyrics have been changed to reflect the menu item in question. Cirno advertises the three types of cheese that are in the pie (cheddar, gouda, and Camembert). Instead ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Alex Rodriguez will see his name for the fifth time on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot for the Class of 2026, but he’s not likely to be inducted given his ties to performance-enhancing drugs and ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an ...

Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...

A new technical paper titled “Impact of Aging, Self-Heating, and Parasitics Effects on NSFET and CFET” was published by researchers at TU Munich and Indian Institute of Technology. “This work presents ...

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati has officially released the schedule for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2026 on its website, gate2026.iitg.ac.in The examination, ...

President Donald Trump and the head of a key housing agency over the weekend mused about a 50-year mortgage backed by the government. The key question, beyond the logistics of actually introducing ...