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In the early 1800s, Denmark’s government, medical community, church leaders and school teachers all united to promote the new smallpox vaccine, which led to a remarkably quick elimination of the disea ...

When considering ancient Greek innovations, we often think of philosophy, mathematics, and architecture—not bakeries or ovens, right?

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and ...

Groundbreaking Black mathematician Gladys West, who helped develop the algorithms behind GPS, died Jan. 17 at age 95. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Marvin Jackson, who co-wrote West's memoir.

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

Ananyo Bhattacharya is chief science writer at the London Institute for Mathematical Sciences and is the author of The Man from the Future (2021). In the weeks leading up to September 1891, ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Finding evidence of ancient mathematics isn’t easy outside of written records, but a new study suggests that floral pottery from ...

Finding evidence of ancient mathematics isn’t easy outside of written records, but a new study suggests that floral pottery from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia shows evidence of geometry ...