Math isn’t just about answers—the process matters, too. These strategies spotlight reasoning and reveal student thinking.

The College Football Playoff selection committee will announce its first of six rankings on Nov. 4 using enhanced metrics to help evaluate schedule strength and how teams perform against their slate, ...

In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how.

Tanks are built to survive explosions—but they’re no match for a weapon that uses geometry to create a hypersonic jet of molten metal. From the invention of the shaped charge to why cardboard and ...

Five months have passed since an investment group led by Bill Chisholm agreed to purchase the Celtics from the Grousbeck family at a valuation of $6.1 billion. Since then, Chisholm assembled the rest ...

Aug. 29, 2025 — Quantum scientists in Innsbruck have taken a major leap toward building the internet of the future. Using a string of calcium ions and finely tuned lasers, they created quantum nodes ...

The Bengaluru-based maths-focussed mobile gaming platform Matiks has secured $3.1 million (about Rs 27 crore) in a pre-Series A funding round led by Tanglin Ventures along with participation from Info ...

The series Fair Observer’s Devil’s Dictionary has been running since October 2017. In this final contribution, we return to the very roots of the project: how language, which conveys meaning, can be ...

In “Outside the Box,” I interrogate AI chatbots to better understand the productive and deceptive ways in which they “reason.” Together with ChatGPT, we have been analyzing the quality of OpenAI CEO ...