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By Winifred KOTINFor many of us, mathematics was not a subject to love—it was a subject to pass so we could progress to the next academic stage. Through years of conversations with executives, ...

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

Two effective manipulatives that can be used to support fractions and base 10 learning are base 10 blocks and Cuisenaire rods ...

At the intersection of mathematics and music, the Festum Pi festival brings together theorists and performers to explore one of humanity’s oldest intellectual duets. We spoke with participant ...

Psychological research shows that intolerance of uncertainty limits reasoning ability. Highly intelligent individuals tend to ...

Chinese tech giant ByteDance finalized its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of US ...

Machine learning is revolutionizing fundamental science by tackling long-standing mathematical challenges. A key example is ...

Seven years of collaborative research involving Heriot‑Watt shows spider monkeys use collective intelligence to locate the ...

In an effort to bring together the domains of gravity and quantum theory, Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen proposed a ...

Scientists mapping the human body at the cellular level keep running into the same surprise: beneath the apparent chaos of tissues and organs, there is a hidden order that looks a lot like pure ...

Physicists have long relied on the idea that electrons behave like tiny particles zipping through materials, even though ...