Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. Answering the question of how many will always end up ...

The painstaking process of formalization to verify proofs is starting to surge thanks to AI. That could radically change the ...

In the 1930s and 1940s, for example, a group of Polish mathematicians regularly met in a café in Lwów, Poland (now Lviv, ...

“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, ...

If you follow the NFL at all, I'm sure you had the same question as I did: Why in the world would the Las Vegas Raiders sign Kirk Cousins to a $172 million deal? Silly us, we should've known that, in ...

EL PAÍS reconstructs what many media outlets sold as ‘the news story of the year,’ and some of its protagonists described as ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

Almost everyone carries microscopic mites on their skin. They live inside pores and hair follicles, feeding on skin oils and dead cells. When people first hear this, the reaction is often disgust or ...

In March 2025, mathematician Daniel Litt made a bet. Despite the march of progress of artificial intelligence in many fields, he believed his subject was safe, wagering with a colleague that there was ...

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...

A math teacher at a top San Francisco school has been placed on leave after allegedly adding fat-shaming and misogynistic questions to students’ tests. Tom Chan, who has worked at Lowell High School ...

The American workforce expects an unmet need for over a million employees to fill STEM-related jobs by 2030. Credit: Allison Shelley for EDUimages The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education.