These are the five hardest questions from the country’s notoriously challenging college-entrance exam, a batch of problems so ...

Physicists discovered that the famous ‘Star Trek’ spaceship got a lot right about designing a ship to jump from galaxy to ...

Somewhere at the edge of mathematics lurks a number so large that it breaks the very foundations of our understanding - and ...

Artificial intelligence has moved from checking homework to attacking problems that professional mathematicians once treated as out of reach. Systems tuned for symbolic reasoning are now cracking long ...

Dr Vesife Hatisaru took a look at one of the hardest questions from this year’s mathematics specialist exam, which focused on complex numbers.

The major scientific breakthroughs and astronomical events have been seen this week with the remarkable development of a new kind of quantum processor that lasts 15 times longer than those used by ...

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Not even Fox News was buying the Trump administration’s nonsense claim that the president has lowered some prescription drug prices by as much as “600 percent.” Fox anchor John Roberts on Thursday ...

Fox News anchor John Roberts asked Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick what President Donald Trump actually meant during his speech last night on the cost of living, noting that some of Trump’s ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. I see it every fall: A student suddenly needs to go to the bathroom mid-lesson. Another zones out ...

For decades, philosophers, technologists, and even billionaires like Elon Musk have toyed with the idea that our universe might be a highly sophisticated computer simulation. The idea represents one ...