For more than a century, physicists debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments ...

Background/objective Children born during England’s COVID-19 lockdowns experienced markedly limited social exposure during a ...

Manjee: Students use screens only for end-of-lesson check-ins — giving teachers real-time info about who's on track and who's ...

A conversation with author Anne Morriss on why the slow and steady approach can leave issues unresolved. When it comes to solving complex, layered problems, the default for many organizational leaders ...

As a resource specialist program teacher, I often work with students who know how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide during isolated math practice, but completely freeze when those same skills ...

Kathleen Thomas received quite the surprise two weeks after her viral traffic citation was dismissed. Thomas, known online as Katie, is an adaptive athlete who documents her life with a limb ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

Marco Casalaina in cyberpunk visual. Credit: VentureBeat made with OpenAI ChatGPT-Images-2.0 Microsoft used its Build 2026 conference this week to push a clear message: agents are rapidly moving into ...

In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable is that the bees had never been trained. The findings challenge the ...

Bumblebees faced with a challenge know how to play ball. Buff-tailed bumblebees can figure out on their own how to use a ball as a ladder to nab sugar from an out-of-reach fake flower, researchers ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

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 ...