Every day, millions of people open Wordle and stare at five empty boxes, hoping the right first guess will unlock the puzzle.

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...

Abstract: This study investigates the behavior of dual-frequency capacitively coupled plasma (DF-CCP) systems using numerical methods. The model determines a system of equations involving four ...

From classical to rock, musicians tune their instruments to a common pitch so they can play together harmoniously. For at least 80 years, that standard pitch frequency has been A440 Hz — which defines ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day. No matter where you look, a bell curve is close by. Place a measuring cup in your ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

For the unfamiliar, high-frequency facial wands “use a glass electrode filled with either argon or neon gas and a mild electrical current that passes through the gas, which creates a soft tingling ...

A high-frequency wand may offer benefits for skin appearance, including reducing fine lines or wrinkles and acne. However, more research is necessary to support these potential benefits. Using a ...

Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

The frequency illusion, also called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, is a cognitive bias in which someone learns a novel word or concept—and then “suddenly” encounters it everywhere, whereas in fact it ...