Mechanical clocks first appeared in northern Italy in the 13th century, following earlier methods of timekeeping like ...

Buoyed by their successful strategies for early literacy, California legislators and advocacy groups are calling for a ...

Cognitive overload can create a bottleneck during math lessons, but there are simple strategies to clear up students’ brain space for complex problem-solving.

Why do some melodies feel instantly right, balanced, memorable and satisfying, even if you have never heard them before? New research from the University of Waterloo suggests that more than creativity ...

Emmanuel Onyegu said it’s always been his dream to be recognized by Guinness World Records. His mastery of math might just get him there.

LLMs have recently helped find solutions to a number of minor longstanding problems. But a new plan called First Proof is really putting them to the test ...

AI systems are beginning to produce proof ideas that experts take seriously, even when final acceptance is still pending. Test-time reasoning changes the game: Instead of answering instantly, models ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

WASHINGTON (TNND) — The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists set the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds to midnight for 2026. The Doomsday Clock is a design that warns the public about how close we are to ...

The Collatz Conjecture is defined by a rule simple enough for a child to follow. No matter what number you start with, the process always appears to end the same way — and it has never been observed ...