We have yet to see any rebound in middle school math on the nation’s report card, where scores declined by 8 points from 2019 to 2022 and remained at that low point when kids last took NAEP in 2024.

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

AI could soon spew out hundreds of mathematical proofs that look "right" but contain hidden flaws, or proofs so complex we ...

Some people dreamed of puzzles, some didn’t, some were lucid, some were not. Interpreting the data proved tricky, but one ...

In a small lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, clusters of mouse brain cells have taken on a task normally reserved for computer algorithms: ...

Mathematicians from the California Institute of Technology have solved an old problem related to a mathematical process ...

Students may take feedback from teachers or peers as a personal judgement unless it is intentionally focused on their work.

New edition builds on the widely used prior version—now expanded to 530+ questions, added diagnostics, difficulty ...

The first reason to doubt the doomer scenario for AI and unemployment is that it keeps not happening. Or, more precisely: ...

Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro is here, and it just doubled its reasoning score ...

Some of Epstein’s ties to the school were hiding in plain sight, yet Harvard officials missed or looked past them during ...

Sci-fi has the great power of making science feel cool. Maybe it straddles the line of nerdy a little too often, but ultimately you can’t convince me that the average person wouldn’t enjoy, even a ...