Fifty years ago, “fractal” was born. In a 1975 book, the Polish-French-American mathematician Benoit B. Mandelbrot coined the term to describe a family of rough, fragmented shapes that fall outside ...

The return of school has us focused on education, and with that in mind we believe it’s worth weighing in on two major changes in the way the state of Illinois measures proficiency in reading, math ...

Conspiracy theories and incitement to harassment and violence abound on mainstream social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. But the extreme content is often mixed with ironic play, memes ...

Purdue University’s College of Science is committed to the persistent pursuit of the mathematical and scientific knowledge that forms the very foundation of innovation. More than 350 tenure-track ...

A math problem has left the internet stumped and social media users scrambling from their nearest protractor to figure it out. Students, teachers and social media are baffled by a tricky math question ...

Students in grades 3-8 in New York performed markedly better in 2025 in English on state assessment tests than in the previous two years — with more than half being scored as proficient, according to ...

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Mathematicians have found a way to transform an unproductive quantum computing approach by reviving a class of previously discarded particles. Now, in a new study published in the journal Nature ...

“Smart scales” claim to measure how much body fat and muscle you have, but they may not give an accurate picture of health. Here’s why. BIA devices come in the form of handgrips, waistbands, “smart ...

Leonardo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man has been puzzling scholars for centuries. Da Vinci, who was not only a famous artist but also an inventor, engineer, and scientist studying subjects like human ...

Aug. 29, 2025 — Quantum scientists in Innsbruck have taken a major leap toward building the internet of the future. Using a string of calcium ions and finely tuned lasers, they created quantum nodes ...