Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 uses complex mathematical formulas to analyze a massive million dollar challenge.

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...

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, ...

President Donald Trump’s claims about prescription drug prices make no mathematical sense. But his team – including Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week – keeps straining to defend them.

New York Rangers forward J.T. Miller has been named the recipient of the fifth annual Rod Gilbert "Mr. Ranger" Award, given to the Rangers player "who best honors Rod's legacy by exemplifying ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Sean Penn may have skipped the Oscars where he landed his third career win for One Battle After Another, but his character in the movie, Steven J. Lockjaw, made an appearance of sorts, getting ...

Detroit — On a day where both were beaming with pride over making state basketball history, both Kelvin and K.J. Torbert did have a different recollection of one big basketball milestone while K.J.

Mr. Potato Head's image got a clean up, years before he entered the "Toy Story" universe JERRY HOLT/Star Tribune/Getty;Steve Starr/CORBIS/Corbis/Getty Mr. Potato Head ...

A teacher at an elite high school in San Francisco has been placed on indefinite leave after allegations of sexist and fat-shaming questions included on ninth-grade Algebra I quizzes, according to ...

The San Francisco Unified School District is investigating a math teacher at Lowell High School amid questions about his teaching methods. The investigation centers around complaints over potentially ...