Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found.

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

Over 300,000 California residents must replace their Real IDs following the discovery of a legacy software issue. The affected group consists of immigrants with lawful presence, according to the state ...

BREAKING NEWS: REINER DEATHS — Famed director and Democratic donor Rob Reiner, 78, and his wife, photographer Michele Singer Reiner, were found dead in their Brentwood home Sunday, the Los Angeles ...

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 ...

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 ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

Hannah Cairo is in the first year of her mathematics graduate program at the University of Maryland. Like her peers, she does research and is a TA on campus. But unlike most Ph.D. students, Cairo is ...

It took a series of aviation disasters for safety experts to realize the critical role of working memory when pilots and technicians juggle competing tasks. In some cases, technicians made apparently ...

While 630 young math prodigies were sitting in a conference room on Australia’s sunshine coast, readying their pencils for the International Math Olympiad, a potential rival was still en route from ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...