Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...

(TNS) — Homework has long been a topic of debate, but in 2025 it is facing an existential crisis: Has artificial intelligence and its instant answers made it pointless or even counterproductive?

I believe mathematical operators such as sin, tan, max, or lim should be translated when the document language is set to something other than English. This would be similar to LaTeX’s behavior when ...

Matt Swartz has created a model to project salaries for arbitration eligible players, which we’ve been publishing at MLB Trade Rumors for 15 years. In the baseball industry, teams and agents determine ...

It’s that time of year. Fall means back-to-school season. It’s time to sharpen your No. 2 pencils (do kids still use pencils?) and fill up your new Ninja Turtles backpack with supplies. The summer has ...

In “Do Sports Explain the ‘Math Gender Gap’?” (op-ed, Sept. 8), J.T. Young speculates whether “the way we teach math is somehow biased against girls.” A related issue is that recent teaching ...

Vera Triplett knew the state had her New Orleans charter school in its sights. Last December, Louisiana's state board of education was on the verge of closing Noble Minds Institute for Whole Child ...

For heavy-duty trucking companies that use owner-operator drivers, it can be tough to stay ahead of the latest nuances in determining whether they are considered employees or independent contractors.

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture. It’s not that anyone ever said ...

If you wave your hand in front of your face, you won’t notice anything particularly interesting. Perhaps a gentle waft of air against your cheek – that’s about it. No epiphany. No major sign that ...