In 1954, a routine scientific test in the Pacific Ocean turned into the worst radiological disaster in American history due to a catastrophic miscalculation. Operation Castle Bravo was engineered to ...

When completing math problems, students often have to show their work. It’s a method teachers use to catch errors in thinking, to make sure students are grasping mathematical concepts correctly. New ...

On March 15, 2019, Brenton Tarrant opened a livestream with a knowing reference to an internet joke — “Subscribe to PewDiePie” — before proceeding to massacre 51 people in two New Zealand mosques. His ...

Hannah Cairo is in the first year of her mathematics graduate program at the University of Maryland. Like her peers, she does research and is a TA on campus. But unlike most Ph.D. students, Cairo is ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...

The Trump administration has “found more room” in the SNAP contingency fund and will only be cutting benefits by 35 percent, the Agriculture Department said Wednesday. The USDA had previously ...

The infinite hotel paradox imagines a hotel with endless rooms that somehow runs out of space. Even when new guests arrive, the manager can always make room—until the logic collapses under its own ...

A BBC article delves into this angle of the story, asking how many cameras are needed to provide comprehensive coverage of a space—even one with a complicated floor plan. An excerpt: By dividing the ...

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A dad in Texas turned to social media for help after becoming increasingly confused by a third-grade math problem set for his child as homework. Marty posted a screenshot of the problem to Reddit ...

We love a good error code here at the Escapist. That’s the most dev of dev things of all, a code appearing on the screen to tell you something has gone wrong, but ...

Jenny Quinn, executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum, shows off a solved Fibonacci sequence puzzle. (GeekWire Photo / Maddie Stoll) Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She ...