Baking soda is one of the most versatile household staples, well beyond the orange box you have sitting in your refrigerator to control odors. Not only is it a kitchen staple and frequent ingredient ...

The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.

One of the things I love about writing about Chick-fil-A—as opposed to other big restaurant chains like McDonald’s or other big companies in other industries—is how Chick-fil-A sometimes gets excited ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

The Stevens Mathematical Olympiad entails solving mathematical and logical problems, as well as demonstrating the joy and excitement of mathematics. Carnegie Mellon Math Professor, International Math ...

Swalwell’s that ends well. Or maybe not, for California Democrats. They lost a frontrunner, and they don’t have a replacement yet. Eric Swalwell quit the race for California governor on Sunday night, ...

“Subtraction!” most of the 3rd graders responded in chorus when asked what operation they needed to use to solve a problem. I noted that 100% of students were engaged and I gave the teacher an ...

On the Wednesday, March 18, 2026, episode of The Excerpt podcast: A critically important source of water for seven western states, the Colorado River is now running out of water. What's the solution?