Students in Kristen Gonsoir’s classroom at Groton Area High School in Groton, S.D., spend a lot of time solving equations together. Early this school year, they passed almost an entire period working ...

“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” With a sly grin that I’d soon come to recognize, Paul Ginsparg quoted Michael Corleone from The Godfather. Ginsparg, a physics professor at ...

A man playing snooker at a billiard club in Beijing on May 6, 2025. Zhao Xintong's historic victory at the World Snooker Championship is set to spur the game to even greater heights in China and ...

When I was a new teacher, I wanted my students to see math not just as numbers and equations but as a tool to understand the world around them. My goal wasn’t for them to simply memorize formulas to ...

Two Anthropic researchers talked about how to embrace AI to build a successful career. Think about what you're doing and how AI can make it better, one researcher said. AI is reshaping job markets, ...

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 ...

Keep your dignity, integrity and GPA intact with these simple tips to help organize your schedule, simulate practice tests and scan instructional documents. Rachel is a freelancer based in Echo Park, ...

As humans, we’re talking to each other constantly. With all that practice, we must be pretty good at it—right? Not exactly. As a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Talk: The Science of ...