Valued at $1.6 billion, a tiny start-up called Axiom is building A.I. systems that can check for mistakes. Axiom Math’s founder and chief executive, Carina Hong, right, and the chief technology ...

Mental math shortcuts suggest future STEM performance—and gender is a significant predictor What is 29 + 14?

They raid compost bins, outsmart latches and sometimes look gleeful doing it. A new study in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons may not just be opportunistic—they may be genuinely curious.

In a new study, scientists successfully trained a brain organoid derived from mouse stem cells to solve an engineering benchmark known as the “cart-pole problem.” By applying weak or strong electric ...

David Cutler is in the spotlight for his work on a tasty-sounding mathematics problem. In January, the New York Times featured a research paper authored by Cutler and Neil Sloane, the founder of The ...

For more than two millennia, mathematicians have produced a growing heap of pi equations in their ongoing search for methods to calculate pi faster and faster. The pile of equatio ...