A century ago, Erwin Schrödinger came up with an equation that says how the quantum world behaves. Now scientists are asking ...

Mathematica creator Stephen Wolfram has spent nearly 50 years arguing that simple computational rules underlie everything from animal patterns to the laws of physics. In his 2023 TED talk, he makes ...

Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’ mathematical thought, a study has found. Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem ...

iPhone's "System Data" can take up a lot of space on your smartphone. Here's what we know. Credit: Future Publishing via Getty Images It's a dreaded notification that some iPhone users have come to ...

Mathematics is often seen as perfect—consistent, complete, and immune to contradiction. But in the early 20th century, a breakthrough proved that no mathematical system can ever explain everything ...

About 10 years ago I invented a simple little mathematical system to help me pick winners in bowl games. If I'm looking at a list and I see something like this year's XBox Bowl (yes, that's a thing) ...

The team with the highest point total and therefore national champion is Texas Tech The system identifies 10 games where the predicted winner is different from the Vegas betting favorite. According to ...

HURRICANE, Washington County — Americans have a complicated relationship with math. Studies reveal that a vast majority of adults living in the United States believe math skills are essential — but ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...