Two tons of Jim Crow-era trouble came crashing down on Charleston’s Marion Square last week.That’s when a massive granite ...

Every year around this time, the noise starts to drop. The pace eases a bit. Families gather, neighbors reconnect and people ...

Language is more strongly controlled by the left half of the brain, while other functions are more strongly controlled by the ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, recorded the moment a star’s explosion broke through its surface. The nearby supernova, SN 2024ggi, revealed a surprisingly olive-shaped blast when studied with ...

While the majority of the New York City Council is caught up in the speaker’s race, as is everyone else in New York politics, the chamber’s five-member incoming Minority Caucus is preparing for a ...

The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The best perk of Alberto Maspero’s job, he says, is the view from his window. Situated on a hill above the ancient port city of Trieste, ...

Rocky Point High School math teacher Jay Rand likes to challenge his students with a classic head-scratcher on the first day of class: Sum up the digits from 1 to 100, without counting. But first, he ...

We’ve often thought that 3D printers make excellent school projects. No matter what a student’s interests are: art, software, electronics, robotics, chemistry, or physics, there’s something for ...

Across the country this fall, millions of college students are walking into math classrooms worried about their future — perhaps with good reason. For decades, mathematics — particularly college ...

The Detroit Tigers promise they won’t panic. Just as they promised they weren’t panicking Thursday, Sept. 18, at Comerica Park when the Cleveland Guardians finished off a sweep, knocked out their ace ...