This year’s Abel Prize, an annual lifetime achievement award for mathematics that is bestowed by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and was modeled on the Nobel Prize, has been given to Gerd ...

Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning.  The proposed math standards the board was considering — just 36 pages, less ...

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, the Norwegian Academy of ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

Susan Gilkerson, a math teacher and school bus driver, stood before a South Dakota education board and issued a warning. This story also appeared in Chalkbeat and South Dakota Searchlight The proposed ...

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.-backed Moonshot AI released an upgrade of its flagship model, heating up a domestic arms race ahead of an expected rollout by Chinese sensation DeepSeek. The latest ...

Apple has long made its own productivity apps completely free to use on any of its hardware, but that’s about to change. While core features will remain free, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and Freeform are ...

The idea doesn’t come from science fiction anymore. It comes from limits repeatedly encountered in physics and computation. Space, time, and energy behave less like smooth continua and more like ...

Finding evidence of ancient mathematics isn’t easy outside of written records, but a new study suggests that floral pottery from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia shows evidence of geometry ...

LANSING, MI - The Michigan Court of Claims has ruled that guidance issued by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson on counting absentee ballots with mismatched numbers is not valid. In a Dec. 3 ruling, ...

A Wall Street portfolio manager has gone viral with a blog post that posits a new poverty line for a family of four in America: $140,000 a year. It’s a large number. The Federal Poverty Level set by ...