Holidays bring celebration, rest and, for many families, long stretches of indoor time. For some, this means tabletop games ...

Mathbots haven’t done much for K-12 math instruction. Can more sophisticated uses of AI succeed in turning around American ...

As a new study finds that asking men specific questions about their problem-solving skills might weed out bad partners, Olivia Petter asks whether we could all benefit from creating our own ‘boyfriend ...

When the FORTRAN programming language debuted in 1957, it transformed how scientists and engineers programmed computers. Complex calculations could suddenly be expressed in concise, math-like notation ...

What if the famous P vs NP problem isn’t just about algorithms but about the observers trying to solve them? Research suggests computational difficulty depends on observer limits.

This article was prepared for the Science Olympiad. The interview was conducted by Yuta Mikhalkin, from the Volunteers for Physics in the Science Olympiad media team. After taking part in the Olympiad ...

Why the challenge of truly representative democracy is so complex. Moon Duchin, who leads the University of Chicago’s Data and Democracy Research Initiative, explores how math can help solve ...

What’s happened? Instagram is testing a new feature that gives users more control over the type of content they see on the platform. Why is this important? Instagram’s algorithm plays a major role in ...

American football in the USA has long gone beyond the traditional game. Today, it is a sport in which data plays a huge role. In recent years, analytics in the NFL and college football (NCAA) has ...

From resume screening bots to AI tools that assess facial expressions in interviews, artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how employers make decisions about candidates and employees. Artificial ...