Today Merle received this year’s Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for his achievements. The prize comes with a $3-million ...

From fractions and decimals to distance and time, the humble-but-versatile number line can deepen students’ understanding of ...

Isolating the first spark of life on Earth is a matter of biology, geology, and chemistry—but it's also an amazing math ...

They’re not the six-sided dice we’re familiar with now, but these ancient tools were crucial for rudimentary games of chance ...

Senet, invented by at least 3500 BCE in predynastic Egypt, is presented as the oldest known board game in the world. Played for more than 3,000 years, it used rows of squares, gaming pieces called ...

President Donald Trump can add yet another honor to his roster — one that was just invented. Trump became the first-ever recipient of the “America First Award” late Wednesday, presented by House ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

Louisiana’s history is as rich as its food, and traditional Louisiana cuisine is a big part of the state’s rich history. The food found in Louisiana is a blend of the cultures that the state was ...

Humans are animals. This statement, although true, is unsettling for many people. Such discomfort reveals a deep ambivalence about how we see ourselves — a part of nature, yet somehow different from ...

In March 2025, mathematician Daniel Litt made a bet. Despite the march of progress of artificial intelligence in many fields, he believed his subject was safe, wagering with a colleague that there was ...

Two years ago, leaders at Center City Public Charter School’s Congress Heights campus in D.C. decided to offer more advanced math classes to some of their oldest students. The choice was complicated, ...