“We call it quantitative literacy, just knowing which fraction is larger or smaller, that the slope is positive when it is ...
At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?
Hannah Cairo is in the first year of her mathematics graduate program at the University of Maryland. Like her peers, she does research and is a TA on campus.
AlphaEvolve, an AI system created by Google DeepMind, is helping mathematicians do research at a scale that was previously ...
Odyssey Math Tuition launches a Secondary 1 online math tuition elearning course in Singapore, featuring a proprietary ...
Editorial written by Bloomberg Opinion Board Math scores in the U.S. have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the ...
After weeks of silence, NASA has officially dismissed speculation that 3I/ATLAS has anything to do with aliens.
Scientists in Greece have laid out a mathematical framework to help explain a so-far-unsolved gap in our understanding of how ...
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A Theory of Dumb

In a paper published last year, Shumailov called this “model collapse,” a process by which an AI system becomes, in his words ...
The brain is wired to engage in tasks like washing dishes and sweeping the floor without thought. The default mode network is ...
Artificial intelligence has once again pushed the boundaries of what is possible. On November 14, 2025, an AI system, aptly ...
Nearly three years ago, as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis championed his culture-war policies during the run-up to a bid for the ...