Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Apple's premium over-ear headphones get their first update since 2020. Available for preorder on March 25, they ship in early April for $549. Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of ...

W hen California lawmakers voted in 2017 to all but eliminate remedial math across the state’s community colleges, Nicholas Lujan was the kind of student they hoped to save. After three years of ...

On Tuesday, OpenAI introduced dynamic visual explanations, a new ChatGPT feature that allows users to see how formulas, variables, and mathematical relationships change in real time. Instead of just ...

“I’ve spent a long time exploring the crystalline beauty of traditional mathematics, but now I’m feeling an urge to study something slightly more earthy,” John Baez wrote on his blog in 2011. An ...

Your F1 Fantasy team is built around the top driver on your team. Sure, you want to add value from the rest of the lineup, but the real anchor is your top driver. In 2026, four drivers are coming in ...

It’s not TV. It’s HBO — and also Paramount+. During Paramount’s first investor call since emerging victorious in the bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery, CEO David Ellison shared that following the ...

A new Stanford study suggests math struggles may be about more than numbers. Children who had difficulty with math were less likely to adjust their thinking after making mistakes during number ...

Across the country, states are passing new laws aimed at improving math teaching—mandating that schools intervene early to support students who struggle, expanding access to advanced courses in later ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

HBO Max is top of mind these days. While Warner Bros. has now accepted Netflix’s acquisition offer, despite Paramount’s best efforts, we still don’t know what exactly that means for the future of ...