The Kentucky Department of Education says it’ll save the state more than $350,000. But administrators, like Hardin County ...

Imagine this: You’re a South Korean teenager taking a notoriously grueling 8-hour college entrance exam. You’ve been prepping for this for months, perhaps years. You reach the English portion, and you ...

Last week, I was reading journal articles to add to my list of references for a new research article I’m working on. I had a lot of trouble with one article’s reference list: some of the sources were ...

Answering questions on Gaza and Syria, President Donald Trump says his relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu is “very good” and that the recent Israeli strike on a Hamas general is still being reviewed ...

MORE THAN a thousand people gathered at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 14th, the first night of Hannukah, to watch the lighting of a menorah. Children wearing face paint crowded a petting zoo.

Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a grueling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William Lowell Putnam ...

CBSE Board Exams 2026: The examinations will be held from 10:30 AM to 01:30 PM. CBSE Board Exams 2026: Mathematics is often considered one of the most challenging subjects for students. Those who are ...

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When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

There weren’t calculators or computers in medieval Europe. But there were math duels. Mathematicians would gather in public squares and pose tricky math problems to each other. Then they raced to ...

Quantum computers can outperform even the best classical supercomputers thanks to quantum entanglement and superposition, but even they can’t solve some problems. A new preprint study shows how ...

Dr. Mehmet Oz got his math completely wrong while trying to defend President Donald Trump on drug prices. NBC’s Kristen Welker pointed out in an interview Wednesday night that Trump has repeatedly ...