"Math is gorgeous and bizarre," Ben tells us when we ask him why math is important for everyone to know. "It gives us fractal coastlines, logical paradoxes, infinities nested like matryoshka dolls ...

“My daughter’s math teacher has a rule that they only get one bathroom pass per week, AND, if they don’t use it, they get ...

Each state has its own set of laws that seem quite strange, and Minnesota is not exempt. Many bizarre laws that come out of states are fictional rumors that somehow spread with no evidence backing ...

Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...

Oct. 11, 2024 — A collection-based survey of lichen species at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, USA and Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station in Nunavut, Canada was conducted as part ...

Chatbots like ChatGPT get stuff wrong. But researchers are building new A.I. systems that can verify their own math — and maybe more. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco On a recent ...

There’s this famous story in the math world of a genius—a boy born into poverty in ... There’s a bunch of ways in which this ...

The American Dream is quite expensive now! After someone did the math, it looks like it cost $4 million to be able to achieve ...

Kingsley’s initial excitement was shared by Corey Allard, a postdoctoral fellow at Bellono’s lab, who has a passion for studying the biology of bizarre fish. Allard had been entranced by the ...

Few things in space are simply black and white — but this bizarre rock certainly is. NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover discovered a strange black-and-white rock unlike anything seen on Mars ...

Shohei Ohtani is usually as cool as the other side of the pillow, but he appeared to be very frustrated over a play in the fourth inning of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ game against the San Diego ...