Military strategists use game theory to evaluate possible strategies—but there are limits to what this approach to ...

While most states have graduation rates between 80-95%, math proficiency is most often below 50%. (There’s a wide range in ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

The high school student whose senior prank led to the death of his teacher is sharing his condolences after being charged. Jayden Ryden Wallace, 18, is facing three to 15 years in prison if convicted ...

MUMBAI-Akshay Kumar, who is receiving a positive response to his work in the recently released film ‘Jolly LLB 3’, has shared the maths behind his disciplined life. He recently graced the season ...

AI hallucinations are one of the most serious challenges facing generative AI today. These errors go far beyond minor factual mistakes. In real-world deployments, hallucinations have led to incorrect ...

Zach D. Berg ’28 is a History and Government concentrator in Adams House. Daniel Zhao ’28 is a Math and Computer Science concentrator in Adams House. Many economists agree that the only thing worse ...

Life’s origin story just became even more mysterious. Using mathematics and information theory, Robert G. Endres of Imperial College London found that the spontaneous emergence of life from nonliving ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

Test your brain with this tricky math question! Most people get it wrong at first glance. Divide 100 by half, add fifty, and see if you can solve it correctly. Are you up for the challenge?