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 ...

Doctors often refer to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease as a ‘cardiometabolic triangle’. Each condition increases the risk of the others ...

Kids with math learning disabilities process number symbols differently than quantities shown as dots — and it shows up in ...

A new long-term study has revealed an important pattern in how teenagers use cannabis, offering insight into why youth drug trends can suddenly rise or fall across an entire generation. Researchers in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you fly, do you practice difficult things that you don't do well? Or do you focus on the easy stuff, leaving harder skills to ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

Tessellations aren’t just eye-catching patterns—they can be used to crack complex mathematical problems. By repeatedly reflecting shapes to tile a surface, researchers uncovered a method that links ...

Edward Khomotso Nkadimeng receives funding from the National Research Foundation. In most industries, maintenance is a waiting game. Things are fixed when they break. But in the 21st century, an age ...

In “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal,” Harvard University’s Jal Mehta and I examine the reforms and enthusiasms that permeate education. In a field full of buzzwords, our goal is simple: Tell the truth ...