Animation of the same plastic spheres disappearing one at a time. A holy grail in pure mathematics is sphere packing in higher dimensions. Almost nothing has...
A yellowish-green apple with a short brown stem, centered on a light blue background. Math, Revealed What an apple, a pentagram and a bellybutton have in...
A red Etch A Sketch toy set against a light purple background displays an animation of a simple line drawing. Math, Revealed Welcome to a city...
There was once a time when America’s lowest-performing students were improving just as much as the country’s top students. Despite their low scores, these students at...
Masaki Kashiwara, a Japanese mathematician, received this year’s Abel Prize, which aspires to be the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in math. Dr. Kashiwara’s highly abstract...
Schoolchildren in Massachusetts, Ohio and Pennsylvania are still about half a year behind typical pre-Covid reading levels. In Florida and Michigan, the gap is about three-quarters...
Science doesn’t usually tolerate frivolity, but the infinite monkey theorem enjoys an exception. The question it poses is thoroughly outlandish: Could an infinite number of monkeys,...
Jake Kocorowski | Wisconsin State Journal Leyton Nelson experienced the wide-ranging emotions of entering the transfer portal this month, but he quickly found relief in Madison....
The North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources is considering four more oil and gas regulatory updates in addition to the dozens of rule changes that it...
Virginia Tech made another big jump in the ranking of top colleges from U.S. News & World Report, released Monday. For likely the first time in...
