In education, few issues have stirred more debate in recent years than when middle and high schoolers should take algebra.

If there is one area in which the schools have performed less well in serving her children, who just completed eighth grade, ...

With A.I. transforming just about every industry on our planet, engineers developing this technology are arguably the most ...

DSpark can make decoding faster, but acceptance quality still determines how much speed the system actually realizes.

MIT has retained the top spot in the QS World University Rankings 2027 for the 15th consecutive year. The result underlines its sustained strength in research, employability, subject rankings and ...

The mathematician, geophysicist, and key figure in oceanography is receiving today in Bilbao the XVIII Frontiers of Knowledge ...

For more than 60 years, Professor Gilbert Strang has turned a linear algebra classroom at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

Researchers around the world are racing to develop new quantum-based systems for sensing, communication, computing and control that have the promise of outperforming traditional systems. Creating ...

[March/24/2025] 🎉 🎊 🎉 Now introducing AgentRxiv, a framework where autonomous research agents can upload, retrieve, and build on each other’s research. This allows agents to make cumulative ...

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

Critics of artificial intelligence caution that, as a relatively new technology, its long-term effects on the human brain are still unknown. But a new study shows that AI could be dangerous even in ...

More and more mathematicians are speaking up about how quickly AI is beginning to add real value to their fields. The latest voice is one of the most credentialed in the world. Timothy Gowers, a ...