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It’s far earlier than most teams currently do.

The Pew Research Group conducted a survey on the most important life skills to several thousand Americans. Here’s what they said.

Why is math the universal language? NASA’s Michelle Thaller solves that one.

A conversation with Sabine Hossenfelder.

“History matters, and we now know that hysteresis is part of the answer,” wrote the author of a recent study.

Depending on the answer, one of the famous unsolved Millennium problems could have major implications in our lives.

Eight-dimensional octonions may hold the clues to solve fundamental mysteries.

When Cresswell returned to teaching after a five-year break, she noticed a marked difference in the ways undergraduates approached learning in the classroom.

A theory from cosmology claims the Universe could rip apart to shreds.

A new study warns of millions of “lost Einsteins.”

The controversy around the Torah codes gets a new life.

She’s not held back by other animals’ numeracy limitations.

People often say, “I’m just not a math person,” but the truth is that no one’s brain is hardwired for math.

A new study finds that simply growing up in a home with enough books increases adult literacy and math prowess.

Research shows that the way math is taught in schools and how its conceptualized as a subject is severely impairing American student’s ability to learn and understand the material.

Fundamental physics must reconsider its current path and value system.

Nietzsche, physics, and the seduction of an idea.

Sabine Hossenfeder has some problems with how it’s practiced today.

Scientists solve the mystery of an ancient Babylonian tablet, rewriting history. They think the tablet has much to teach us.

Groundbreaking research finds that the human brain creates multi-dimensional neural structures.

Mathematicians are working to combat partisan gerrymandering.

Cognitive abilities peak at varying ages, say researchers from MIT and Harvard.

You really do have to know when to hold ’em, and know when to fold ’em, and most of the time trusting your gut is a copout, says poker champion Liv Boeree.

So you think you’re “not a math person”? International Mathematical Olympiad coach Po-Shen Loh strongly disagrees.

Reviving the “Lesbian Rule” (which Aristotle wrote about, and was proverbial in Shakespeare’s day) can help us handle a new kind of weaponized-math threat (that Cathy O’Neil calls “Weapons of Math Destruction”).

Few see how strongly science’s preferred languages shape and limit the thinking of many experts. 

Mathematician Dr. Hannah Fry tells the story of zero, a genius idea that transformed human progress.

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