A new series for the Health and Science section aims to make complex topics easy to dissect, and maybe even help people ‘fall ...

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Stacking one on top of the other, how far can you get the end of the top block to poke over the table's edge? Keep going.

There are eight doors in front of you labeled A through H. Behind one of the doors is a prize. A guard is aware of the ...

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Measured against that, the Kakeya conjecture – a problem stemming from a 1917 thought experiment by Japanese mathematician ...

Age is an important predictor of Americans' feelings toward math, the survey revealed. About half as many younger U.S. adults ...

Twenty years ago, cognitive psychologist Elizabeth Spelke took a strong position in an ongoing public debate. "There are no ...

Mild brain stimulation helped adults with weaker brain connections improve math speed by 6 percent. Memory tasks didn’t ...

One group is betting the state’s blend of libertarianism and progressivism can be packaged to appeal to voters who have ...

A Marietta woman’s new book warns people to stay away from timeshares. “I think the main thing is just don’t do it at all,” ...