Physics can feel inscrutable to students; this lesson helps them understand a graphing problem by analyzing their own ...

For centuries, mathematics was seen as the one discipline immune to contradiction — until one man proved it wasn’t. In the early 20th century, Kurt Gödel uncovered a flaw buried inside logic itself, ...

It starts with a question no gunner can answer in the moment: how many shells will it take to bring down that one-aircraft—a hundred, a thousand, or tens of thousands? The truth, learned the hard way ...

Cover of the English edition of the autobiography of mathematician Shing-Tung Yau, titled The Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry. [Photo provided to China ...

Mathematics provides tools for explanation and analysis in the physical, engineering, business and social sciences. These tools can help in areas as diverse as planning and evaluating market research, ...

President Donald Trump bragged that he was delivering on affordability for Americans after Walmart shared that its annual Thanksgiving meal was cheaper than last year’s — though Internet sleuths are ...

Mathematics and computing is the study and analysis of abstract concepts, such as numbers and patterns. Mathematics is the language of choice for scientifically describing and modelling the universe ...

Knowledge gained by combining measurements and simulations leads to increased confidence in the safety of products, as Louise Wright explains.

NBC News’ Kristen Welker on Wednesday asked Mehmet Oz — the former talk show host and heart surgeon who now runs the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services — about President Donald Trump’s ...