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 ...

Teri Hatcher, 60, recently shared an exciting Instagram post and fans were amazed. The post captured a photo from an adventurous night swim in a lagoon in Kenya. The ‘Desperate Housewives’ star is ...

Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside ...

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Large-scale language models with long CoT reasoning, such as DeepSeek-R1, have shown good results on Olympiad-level mathematics. However, models trained through Supervised Fine-Tuning or Reinforcement ...

If you're old enough, you probably remember getting a line from your math teacher that you need to learn the steps to an equation because "you won't always be carrying a calculator with you." In an AP ...

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 ...

Scientists investigated whether email interventions informed by behavioral science could help teachers help students learn math. American students have been falling behind in math for decades -- with ...

A bill proposed by state Rep. Sean Quinlan would bar siting landfills over aquifers but loosen restrictions against placing them near communities. After more than 150 people spoke out last week ...

These researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs are making discoveries and inventing new solutions in every arena, from the subatomic to the stars. Daniel Marin dreams of an internet where a user’s ...