How do bees make group decisions without a leader? Math experts have determined that the best strategy is for a few to assume ...

At an event in London, mathematicians have made unexpectedly fast progress on formalising Fermat's last theorem using AI ...

The math of buying or renting a home in the Kansas City region has gotten increasingly out of hand. Since 2010, home values ...

Data analytics students are applying classroom skills to a Maine fishing business and a national survey on gambling ...

UNG held a groundbreaking July 7 for the STEM Excellence Center, which is scheduled to open in spring 2028 and will prepare ...

Chicago’s lead pipe problem is one of the largest public health crises in the U.S., and under-the-sink water filters can help ...

QUINCY ‒ A math project came to life this week at Central Middle School, where students used algebra and budgeting skills to design and plant a new garden. It was a perfect day for the seventh graders ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...