Researchers uncovered 53 genetic loci linked to quantitative ability, distinguishing it from general intelligence and ...

The inspiration for this column comes not from the epic 1999 film The Matrix, as the title may suggest, but from an episode of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape podcast that I listened to over the summer. The ...

Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading lessons, writing expectations, ...

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although ...

Is Trump getting rid of the income tax? President Donald Trump says tariffs could eliminate income taxes for most Americans. Economists disagree, but Trump is adamant that his tariff policy could wipe ...

A RAID failure has taken the Matrix.org homeserver offline, leaving users of the decentralized messaging service unable to send or receive messages while engineers attempt a 55 TB database restore. To ...

Climate action is falling behind on the goals as stated in the Paris Agreement. To meet those goals, countries must act according to their "fair share" targets. However, researchers from Utrecht ...

Amid the chaos of revolutionary France, one man’s mathematical obsession gave way to a calculation that now underpins much of mathematics and physics. The calculation, called the Fourier transform, ...