How do astronomers know how far away stars are? Unfortunately, it’s not a short and easy answer.

Over the many years I’ve been writing this column, I've rattled off the distances to many celestial objects. I don't often use miles to express stellar and galactic distances because the numbers ...

Then it’s kind of a mystery to try to figure out why and how they’re related.” The Riemann hypothesis has proved to be a font of surprising connections all over math and beyond it, to the realm of the ...

The jumping jack is an effective way to stimulate all the vital muscles of your body. It is a full-body exercise used in cardio and warm-up sessions. Jumping jacks include resistance and aerobic ...

Most people wouldn't think that it would take rigorous mathematical proof to show how many folds it takes to make a donut ...

The Royal Court is full of memories as it celebrates its 70 th birthday and few ring more strongly than the recollections surrounding this evening which deftly combines the old and the new: Gary ...

An EdWeek video describes an Indiana school's use of tutoring and courses with different levels of rigor to help students.

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...

In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now ...

By replacing the most fundamental concept in topology, Peter Scholze and Dustin Clausen are taking the first step in a far bigger program to understand why numbers behave the way they do.

Mathematicians spend most of their time thinking about what’s knowable. But the unknowable can be just as compelling. Perhaps the most famous example comes from a theorem by the logician Kurt Gödel.

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