Our senior profile of this week is on Reading Memorial High School’s own Indigo Boyko. They take incredibly challenging ...

Dr Vesife Hatisaru took a look at one of the hardest questions from this year’s mathematics specialist exam, which focused on complex numbers.

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Sep 29, 2025; Boston, MA, USA; Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla talks with reporters during media day at the Auerbach Center. Mandatory Credit: David Butler II-Imagn Images Joe Mazzulla is an ...

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Quantum computers can outperform even the best classical supercomputers thanks to quantum entanglement and superposition, but even they can’t solve some problems. A new preprint study shows how ...

Dr. Mehmet Oz got his math completely wrong while trying to defend President Donald Trump on drug prices. NBC’s Kristen Welker pointed out in an interview Wednesday night that Trump has repeatedly ...

AI hype has been very lucrative for Oracle ORCL-1.53%decrease; red down pointing triangle. AI fatigue could prove painful. Oracle significantly raised its long-term financial targets on Thursday ...

Mathematics-focused artificial intelligence startup Axiom Quant Inc. stepped out from the shadows today to announce it has raised $64 million in a funding round that values it at $300 million. The ...

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...