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Here’s how the new tetrahedron-based design for the “Trionda” soccer ball may affect next year’s big game

For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language preservation

Or When can mathematicians reverse engineer basketball tournament results from your friends’ brackets?

The number pi emerges from one of the simplest, most symmetric shapes, yet it gives rise to endless complexity. This Pi Day, find out about some of the fascinating places pi pops up and the burning qu...

Random coin flips, floppy needles and mathematical mysteries reveal pi in new ways

Mental math shortcuts suggest future STEM performance—and gender is a significant predictor

The noperthedron has a surprising property—which disproves a long-standing conjecture

If you want to know where the best leaf peeping will be this year, climate science and weather can provide the answer

Learn the fundamentals of the burgeoning field of knot theory while solving some puzzles along the way

AI can transfer strange qualities through seemingly unrelated training—from a love of owls to something more dangerous

A new brain prosthesis can read out inner thoughts in real time, helping people with ALS and brain stem stroke communicate fast and comfortably

AI models supposedly did well on International Math Olympiad problems, but how they got their answers reminds us why we still need people doing math

Though the Fibonacci sequence shows up everywhere in nature, these young mathematicians were surprised to find it in the answer to a variation of the pick-up sticks problem⁠—a nearly two-century-old f...

When she was just 17 years old, Hannah Cairo disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, breaking a four-decade-old mathematical assumption

A lighting flash that spanned from East Texas to an area near Kansas City in 2017 is officially the longest lightning strike ever measured, according to the World Meteorological Organization

Here’s how the new tetrahedron-based design for the “Trionda” soccer ball may affect next year’s big game

In only its second year, the International Logic Olympiad is already booming as logic becomes more and more crucial in our ever changing world

A 72 percent reduction in federal funding is devastating to math research. The American Mathematical Society is offering $1 million in backstop grants—but it’s likely not enough.

Later this year a tiny rover will carry out an unusual lunar task