New world records in some sports are remarkably elusive, yet in others they seem to fall regularly. There is a good mathematical reason why.

The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper folding.

Eric Davidov was born in Manhattan and raised on Staten Island, New York, in a family that valued hard work, discipline, and ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

Leeds's Joe Rodon and Pascal Struijk get a lot of opportunities from corners. Are they making the most of them?

Education’s dirty little secret in Illinois is that if you want to make the big bucks, you ditch the classroom for a cushy ...

Social Security sends the average retired worker a monthly payment of about $2,008, or $24,096 per year. The overall average ...

My parents sat through a breathless monologue on one of the most exhausting systems USC has to offer: general education. An interlocking web of requirements and rules guards our diplomas with a ...

When evaluating a fund, one of the first sets of numbers you'll likely look up is its past returns. But those are not the returns that owners of that fund actually earned.

BY LOS ALAMOS DYSLEXIA ADVOCATES The Los Alamos Dyslexia Advocates (LADA) parent group is a coalition advocating for the one ...

Axiom Math, which has recruited top talent from Meta, has raised $64 million in seed funding to build an AI math whiz.

Asking students to identify an example of what something is—and importantly, what it isn’t—helps establish clarity and leaves ...