The quest to make mathematics rigorous has a long and spotty history — one mathematicians can learn from as they push to ...

A State College Area School District student won first place on Tuesday night in a national math and science competition for ...

The 17-year-old high school senior beat out roughly 2,600 student projects to claim the top spot.

Researchers have discovered a hidden quantum geometry inside materials that subtly steers electrons, echoing how gravity warps light in space. Once thought to exist only on paper, this effect has now ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

The decision Dr. John Nichols made recently to endow awards for students in math, computer science and statistics at Maryville College was influenced more by a dean’s introduction in orientation class ...

The oldest and best-known preprint repository, arXiv, has announced that it will no longer accept review or position papers in computer science. The website will make exceptions only for papers that ...

In the last couple of years a pressing question has started to permeate the mathematical community: how will mathematicians’ jobs coexist harmoniously with AI as it gets progressively better at ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

As TSA Chaos Spreads, Some Airports Have Solved the Security-Screening Problem The FCC Has an Opportunity to Prepare the Internet for AI The Self-Radicalization Canard Turns out that learning how to ...

The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new worlds for them to explore One of the biggest stories in science has been ...