Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...

It is a central question in neuroscience to understand how different regions of the brain interact, how strongly they "talk" ...

Artificial intelligence systems can write software and reason through complex problems. Yet even basic arithmetic can expose ...

New research reveals why even state-of-the-art large language models stumble on seemingly easy tasks—and what it takes to fix it ...

The Coast Guard will remove divisive language from its new workplace harassment policy that downgraded the definition of swastikas and nooses from hate symbols to “potentially divisive,” Homeland ...

A US House of Commons committee has unanimously supported an amendment to Bill C-9 that deletes references to the “swastika” when describing Nazi hate symbols and instead uses the historically ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

The U.S. Coast Guard is scrambling to clarify proposed internal policy changes that appeared to loosen how the service branch handles the conduct within its ranks involving hate symbols including ...

It’s a complaint many algebra teachers are familiar with, as more letters and symbols are introduced with progressively harder courses in mathematics. But why did the plus symbol emerge as the ...

If you’re a hacker you may well have a passing interest in math, and if you have an interest in math you might like to hear about the direction of mathematical research. In a talk on this topic [Kevin ...