In January 1913, a young Indian clerk in Madras (now Chennai) mailed a thick letter to a famous British mathematician, G. H. Hardy, at Cambridge. The writer Srinivasa Ramanujan said he had no ...

This brief assessment will help identify students who may be experiencing reading difficulties so that they can get extra help and support as soon as possible,” said Education Minister Lisa Beare ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

The winning team consists of students Paige Baisden, Seth Bender, Gideon Kortan, Aiden Litchney and Joey Oppman, under the guidance of coach Ben Book. The team will continue its competitive season at ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns.

An iconic example of this is the failure of the first Ariane 5 launch in 1996. Just 37 seconds after launch, the rocket left its trajectory began to spin uncontrollably and eventually self-destructed.

A new reading curriculum her school system began implementing last year is taking hold. “Our school started last year,” Scherer says, and these fifth-graders “know things that I didn’t think that they ...

Eight years after putting in place a tool that gauges kindergarten readiness, more children in Illinois are showing up to elementary school ready to go, but gaps between different groups of students ...

OpenAI and Apple have moved to dismiss a lawsuit by Elon Musk's xAI, alleging that ChatGPT's integration into a "handful" of iPhone features violated antitrust laws by giving OpenAI a monopoly on ...

One in six people of reproductive age suffer from infertility. Start-ups are using AI-powered robots to increase IVF success rates and lower costs.