The military faces a new recruiting crisis as America's teen population shrinks and outreach methods fail. The Pentagon is ...

Discover what a factor rate is and how to calculate it.

Earthquakes happen daily, sometimes with devastating consequences, yet predicting them remains out of reach. What scientists ...

Every online bank transfer, private message and Bitcoin transaction rests on the assumption that some math problems are ...

New math model controls biological noise at single-cell level, offering a path to tackle cancer relapse and drug resistance.

Why does cancer sometimes recur after chemotherapy? Why do some bacteria survive antibiotic treatment? In many cases, the ...

Why does cancer sometimes recur even after successful treatment, or why do some bacteria survive despite the use of powerful ...

Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra says math scores among the province's Grade 3, 6 and 9 students are showing "inadequate" signs of improvement. But in Ottawa, the latest test results for the ...

I don’t typically write responses to other opinion pieces, but there was one two weeks ago about new techniques in elementary math education that has inspired me. The main complaint was that there are ...

Black and Latino students are much less likely to have early access to Algebra 1 than their white and Asian peers—even when they’re in the same schools, and have similarly high math scores, according ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...