Get your timer out and see whether you can remember the golden rule from grade school math class.

Giraffe intelligence research is changing how the world views animal cognition. A new scientific discovery shows that ...

Simple math equations grow harder when we're out of practice. As time goes on we forget the elementary rules of math and compound problems become more and more challenging. That's why a simple math ...

For 32 years, Craig Bennet spent his days asking students to solve for X and a few other math equations. As of Friday, he ...

Whenever I get coffee with a mathematician, I always ask which of the seven Millennium Problems they think will be next to fall. These are math’s most famous open questions. Solve one, and you’ll win ...

When Jason bent down to help his daughter search for a missing library book, he expected to find old toys, forgotten socks, ...

The median U.S. household income is roughly $50,000 a year. It’s also a common floor for a livable retirement budget once ...

The most important takeaway is that intelligence cannot be reduced to a single score or trait. It is a complex combination of different abilities that work together in unique and often imperfect ways.

Last week, I introduced Emmy Noether, an extraordinary figure in the fields of mathematics and physics. To understand Noether ...

How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a system—like the orbit of planets.

8 ÷ 2(2+2). Simple, right? WRONG. As someone who hasn't calculated anything more difficult than a restaurant tip in years, may I say that I can't believe we've made math trend on Twitter. You're all ...

Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far enough back toward ...