Tipping points in our climate predictions are both wildly dramatic and wildly uncertain. Can mathematicians make them useful?

Exasperating. Depressing. Predictable. That’s how experts describe the latest results from the National Assessment of ...

A decade-long slide in high schoolers’ reading and math performance persisted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with 12th graders ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

Picture a tune that plays with your mind. It does not go straight but skips and flips in ways you do not expect. That is math rock. It avoids common music paths, which makes it feel fresh and smart.