Not every teacher agrees that Gen Alpha is facing a learning crisis, but many say the classroom has changed dramatically in ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

On the evening of May 25, Ferrari unveiled the Luce, its first fully electric vehicle. Designed by Jony Ive and Marc Newson’s studio LoveFrom, the EV offers more than 1,000 horsepower and a zero-to-60 ...

This month, American moviegoers will watch Oscar-winner Brendan Fraser as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in “Pressure,” alone in a storm-lashed Portsmouth headquarters in June 1944, weighing weather ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Sunday (May 24, 2026) once again extended the deadline for students seeking scanned copies of their evaluated answer books for Class 12 board ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it ...