Last month many mathematicians were shocked by OpenAI’s announcement that artificial intelligence had solved geometry’s famous “unit distance” problem. For some, the achievement was exciting. But ...

Can you hear the shape of a drum? Can math help reveal what’s happening inside a human organ? For Ricardo Araujo Torres, these aren’t just riddles—they’re the focus of his research at Fordham. “What ...

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With the US Mint officially ending penny production in late 2025, new rounding rules are being implemented across the country to adjust cash transactions. The decision to end penny production was ...

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion connections. If the brain were a computer, it would perform an exaflop (a ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The 2026 Masters has arrived at its final stanza, and the second nine is hot with some of the best golfers in the world jockeying for position at the country's best course. For one, ...

This week's question comes from Morning Brief reader Eric, who asks, "I've heard that meteorologists use math to predict the weather. How does that work?" Meteorologist Jonathan Belles: Yes, ...

In the ongoing campaign by artificial intelligence companies to take over pure mathematics, another round is commencing. The team behind First Proof, an effort to benchmark the ability of large ...

Every NFL fan's favorite thing to do during the off-season is to fantasize about how their team will improve the roster ahead of the upcoming season. This comes in many forms, but the most popular ...

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Remainder. Product. Algorithm. Ordered pair. Seemingly jargony words and phrases like these, referring to specific math concepts, might seem complex for elementary school students to grasp. But ...

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