Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most ...

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

From fractions and decimals to distance and time, the humble-but-versatile number line can deepen students’ understanding of ...

Linguists can mix, match or even break the rules of real-world languages to create interesting imaginary ones.

Replacing a $60,000 salary with dividend income is one of the most concrete goals in personal finance. The math is ...

Replacing a $60,000 salary with dividend income is one of the most concrete goals in personal finance. The math is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

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 ...

Four days into war with Iran, at least one of the United States’ Gulf allies is already running low on crucial interceptor munitions used to defend against Iranian missile and drone attacks, two ...

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.