Index funds have basically become the default recommendation for retirement investing, and for good reason. Low fees, broad ...

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

The B-2 Spirit’s newly disclosed LRASM capability turns America’s stealth bomber into a Pacific ship-killer, giving U.S. commanders another way to hold China’s fleet at risk before the shooting starts ...

A version of this essay appeared on Matthew Yglesias’ Slow Boring, a site dedicated to offering pragmatic takes on politics ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Katie Arnold-Ratliff wrote a ...

Every parent expects school to challenge their child, but they also expect teachers to encourage students when subjects ...

The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.

Apple says testing missed flaws in new encryption designed to protect against future attacks from quantum computers, so it turned to mathematical proofs to make sure the code works correctly before ...

Is America heading toward a national debt crisis? As an economic adviser to President Biden and an economist active in mainly Democratic policy circles since the late 1980s, I’ve spent most of my ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

A team of UCLA computer scientists and mathematicians has been awarded a three-year, $5 million grant by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop artificial intelligence tools aimed at ...

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