California could begin testing students as early as kindergarten in math. Proponents of Senate Bill 1067, including state Sen ...

Latest AI mystery is that there are 11 specific nouns used frequently by LLMs when creating short stories. Why those words?

Comic legend Richard Pryor used the n-word so much during his standup routines that he once said, “I said it over and over like a preacher singing hallelujah.” Yet one of the most notorious examples ...

Companies are shifting from running everything on the most powerful AI model to matching each task to the right one, a practice called model routing. The pressure for efficiency comes as large ...

At the second meeting of Gov. Tina Kotek’s Transportation Vision Workgroup, members spent hours discussing how to change public perception of the state transportation agency. Aerial view of the ...

The planar Hall effect is a tabletop diagnostic tool for special quantum properties useful in basic research and technological applications. Or so it was thought, because careful calculation by Kobe ...

A sweeping investigation has revealed widespread fraud in mathematics publishing, where commercial metrics and rankings have incentivized the mass production of meaningless or flawed papers. The study ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

This marks one of the clearest examples so far of AI helping to solve a longstanding mathematical problem that had stumped the experts. Written for you by our author Paul Arnold, edited by Gaby Clark, ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden mathematical secret inside the leaves of the Chinese money plant: a naturally occurring geometric pattern known as a Voronoi diagram, something typically associated ...

Arizona’s budget debate is stuck in a place that no longer reflects reality. For years, state lawmakers have treated tax cuts as a default strategy, arguing that they will magically produce growth, ...

Global data on math achievement is revealing a dismaying trend: Girls are doing worse than boys — and the margins are huge. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. In 2023, fourth-grade boys ...