Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

The Buffalo Bills were bullied on both sides of the ball on Thursday Night Football. Needless to say, the Houston Texans’ No. 1 defense lived up to its billing, which made for a long night. Buffalo ...

Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...

The Denver Broncos prepare for their second home prime time matchup of the season as they welcome division rival Las Vegas Raiders. With playoff implications on the line, this Thursday night showdown ...

The biggest story in Australian politics this week has involved the Prime Minister wearing a Joy Division T-shirt. On Oct. 23, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, of the center-left Labor Party, was ...

Artificial intelligence may be changing how content is made, but its bigger impact on media is how the technology is altering who is able to access that content, one media executive said. Jyoti ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Amateur mathematicians are closing in on an unimaginably huge number – one so large that it brushes up on the edge of what is even knowable within the framework of modern mathematics. It all stems ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Quantum computers still can’t do much. Almost every time researchers have found something the high-tech machines should one day excel at, a classical algorithm comes along that can do it just as well ...