Your first year as a freelancer has a funny way of messing with your head. One month you feel unstoppable because clients are paying real money. The next month, you panic because no one is withholding ...

Latrenda Knighten has always liked math. As a child, she remembers breezing through timed tests ‒ high speed, low stakes assignments that challenge students to complete a number of simple problems in ...

President Trump’s trade policy, inflation and climbing stock prices shaped business and the economy this year. By Christine Zhang In recent years, macroeconomic tides have ebbed and flowed, but one ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

A professor at the University of Cincinnati and his colleagues have figured out something two of America's most famous fictional physicists couldn't: how to theoretically produce subatomic particles ...

Although not a household scientific name like Albert Einstein or Isaac Newton, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan—who tragically died in 1920 at the age of 32—was one of the greatest minds in ...

This holiday-themed brainteaser looks simple, but it's quietly tripping up adults everywhere I’ve been out of school for decades, and I don’t spend my days solving equations (I’m more of a word person ...

This video explains the science behind the three-body problem, exploring why predicting the motion of three interacting bodies is so complex and why it matters in physics and astronomy. Missing ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

Mariah Carey is almost as synonymous with Christmas as Santa Claus at this point. It’s all thanks to her hit song “All I Want For Christmas,” which isn’t just a hallmark of the cultural yuletide joy.

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...