People use their bodies—not just their brains—to think. So the MIT Project on Embodied Education brings movement to the ...

Legal AI tools have moved from novelty to necessity. Firms have signed contracts, run pilots, and rolled out generative AI assistants with ...

Jamie Gifford sailed a Stevens 47 into 53 anchorages last year and learned what it really takes to make routing software work ...

At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s their favorite food? Answers came in English and Spanish—“todo” (everything), ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

Here’s a contrarian truth that cuts through much of today’s AI hype: When your AI assistant calculates revenue, bonuses, VAT or financial summaries, it isn’t doing math. It’s telling a convincing ...

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. At the turn of the 20th century, the renowned mathematician David Hilbert had a grand ambition to bring a more rigorous, mathematical ...

Today’s post continues a series highlighting ways teachers can help students see how math and science are relevant to their lives. Emily Burrell has taught high school mathematics for 23 years. For ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

During the 18th century the denizens of the Prussian city of Königsberg wrestled with a puzzle: How could they find a walking path through the city that crossed each of its storied seven bridges ...