A nuclear submarine can disappear from the operational fleet for years without leaving the map, and that absence still changes what the Navy can do. That is the engineering reality behind a prolonged ...

For many school students, summer break means holidays, travel, and a much-needed pause from exams and homework. But if you're aiming to study at a top university abroad, summer can be much more than ...

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Mathematics' great tale about the man who tamed infinity just got a messy rewrite. In Quanta Magazine, Joseph Howlett reports ...

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In November 2022, Intelligencer published this story about MIT’s decision to require applicants to submit SAT and ACT scores again, two years after nearly every elite college in the country made test ...

Board games boost youngsters' maths skills, according to new research. Children learn to count as they move pieces along a numbered path in games such as snakes and ladders, say scientists. The study ...

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Human babies and even animals have a basic number sense that many believe evolves from seeing the world and trying to quantify all the sights. But vision has nothing to do with it—Johns Hopkins ...

A sweeping investigation has revealed widespread fraud in mathematics publishing, where commercial metrics and rankings have incentivized the mass production of meaningless or flawed papers. The study ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The ongoing math wars plus persistent teacher pipeline issues are among the most powerful forces behind students’ longstanding ...

Gender disparities in math proficiency emerge only after children start school, according to a June study coauthored by Harvard Professor of Psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke ’71 and published in the ...