Sen. Jack Reed corrected Education Secretary Linda McMahon's math during a budget hearing. McMahon misstated the 10-year cost of education programs as "over a trillion dollars," when the actual amount ...

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Monday that some $4.7 trillion in payments from the Treasury Department were missing a critical tracking code, which made tracing the ...

Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson, who surprised the math world when they produced innovative solutions to a 2,000-year-old puzzle, wowed the math world again when they presented several new ways of ...

Martin Gardner’s Mathematical Games column in Scientific American fascinated and mystified readers for decades—and his legacy continues to bring mathematicians, artists and puzzlers together. Gardner ...

Michel Talagrand of France has credited a brush with blindness for leading to the work that resulted in his recognition by the math equivalent of the Nobel Prize. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang has ...

Cutting a bar magnet in half won't get rid of its poles. It'll just produce two magnets, each with a north pole that will be attracted to the other magnet's south pole, and vice versa. It's this ...

We might not see these new smaller Surface tablets until 2024. We might not see these new smaller Surface tablets until 2024. Currently, Microsoft only ships its Surface Pro 9 with a 13-inch screen, ...

Ed Sheeran announced the North American leg of his 2023 tour the “+ - = ÷ x Tour” (pronounced the “Mathematics Tour). This will be his first tour in five years since his history-making “Divide Tour” ...

A special redistricting commission in Maryland convened for the fourth and final time on Friday to hear public comment on the state's congressional maps. Police investigate northern Baltimore shooting ...

New details about the latest episode were recently disclosed by Air Force chief of staff Gen. Mark Welsh at an annual conference of the Air Force Association. On Sept. 17, the general not only ...

Having one black teacher in elementary school not only makes children more likely to graduate high school—it also makes them significantly more likely to enroll in college. Black students who'd had ...