Math illuminates how traffic flows, how our cells build proteins and even how to speed up medical imaging scans. Some worry ...

MIT students and casino mathematics come together in a story about strategy, probability, and card-counting style thinking.

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Kharizmi helped solidify the concept of algorithms in mathematics and popularized algebra and the use of the zero.

Most successful scientists are optimists. They have to be, since the vast majority of experiments fail. In graduate school, I remember sitting in the lab at Rockefeller University in New York at 3 a.m ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...

Process mining company Celonis has acquired MIT-linked decision intelligence supplier Ikigai Labs to flesh out its offer to eliminate artificial intelligence (AI) “blind spots” from business IT.

While Hollywood may be the city of stars, the Breakthrough Prize honored three Bay Area scientists with “Oscars of Science” on Saturday in recognition for their efforts to answer questions that have ...

Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill into law that proponents say will strengthen Mississippi’s educational system. Senate Bill 2294, adopted through conference report, includes several measures that died ...

The ozone layer has been on track to recover thanks to the Montreal Protocol—but a loophole may be holding it back. Chemicals still permitted for industrial use are leaking into the atmosphere at ...

Shira is eager to hear from college students and their families about how you’re feeling about the job market. Drop her a line at shira.ovide@washpost.com. A lot of students took the advice to learn ...