Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...

Solving for how without the why ...

Giraffe intelligence research is changing how the world views animal cognition. A new scientific discovery shows that ...

For 32 years, Craig Bennet spent his days asking students to solve for X and a few other math equations. As of Friday, he ...

With Father’s Day just behind us, I’ve found myself reflecting on the lessons my dad taught me — lessons that have shaped not only who I am as a person, but also how I lead. Growing up, my father had ...

AfriExit is no longer theory. It is happening in South Africa as I write -- and the continent is watching. Ghana has summoned South Africa's high commissioner. Nigeria has evacuated citizens. The ...

How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a system—like the orbit of planets.

Last week, I introduced Emmy Noether, an extraordinary figure in the fields of mathematics and physics. To understand Noether ...

When Jason bent down to help his daughter search for a missing library book, he expected to find old toys, forgotten socks, ...

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent ...