Once a century, a very special day comes along. That day is today — 9/16/25. Pi Day (3/14) often comes with sweet treats; Square Root Day (4/4/16 or 5/5/25, for example) has a certain numerical rhyme.

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

Teens surprise math world with Pythagorean Theorem trigonometry proof | 60 Minutes CBS News Videos Sun, August 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM PDT Add Yahoo on Google ...

A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students. Then Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson stepped up to the challenge.

This study aimed to identify the errors made by tenth-grade students while working on the Pythagorean Theorem and analyze the factors contributing to these errors. The selected sample was the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...

Grok 4 is a huge leap from Grok 3, but how good is it compared to other models in the market, such as Gemini 2.5 Pro? We now have answers, thanks to new independent benchmarks. LMArena.ai, which is an ...

Three people were taken into custody Saturday night in connection with a shooting during a "No Kings" protest in Salt Lake City, Utah, including a man believed to be the gunman, according to police.

A Spelunker Thought She Found Trash in a Cave. It Was Actually Evidence of a Lost Civilization. In a dissent not seen in three decades, two Fed governors wanted to cut interest rates and here is why ...

Math anxiety affects roughly 25 percent of students, which can prevent them from learning and taking more advanced mathematics courses. Fear around the subject can include being in a math class, ...

Trigonometry class has tripped up generations of teenagers, yet none of its puzzles spark more head‑scratching than the classic right‑triangle riddle. The formula a² + b² = c² looks tidy on the ...

Editor’s note: We’ve updated this story with the phrase “unidentified anomalous phenomena,” NASA’s most recent term for unidentified aerial phenomena. When NASA asked Boston University space physicist ...