Q&A: Even small amounts of online math practice can improve skills

An analysis of data from 200,000 students using a computer-assisted math program supports an optimistic view of skill-focused ...

POET Technologies: Not A Speculative Bet Anymore

POET Technologies provides 1.6T AI transceivers with 40% energy savings, a $15 target, and Marvell buyout potential. Check ...

10 Cheap Gadgets Under $10 Worth Adding To Your Collection

From budget-conscious consumers, to tech-curious readers, these products offer a cheap way to improve daily convenience ...
Leadership

How I Built AI To Read ECGs, Solve Africa’s Cardiac Care Gap – Prof. Katibi

Professor Ibrahim Adeola Katibi, a renowned cardiologist, teaches at the University of Ilorin in Kwara State. He is a former ...
Edutopia

Helping Students Learn the Art of Trying in Math

These four classroom shifts can make academic risk-taking feel safer, clearer, and more worthwhile for middle school students ...
FierceBiotech

Addition Tx does the math and emerges from stealth with $100M, biotech vets on exec team

University of California spinout Addition Therapeutics has uncloaked, revealing “breakthrough” PRINT technology it hopes will fuel a new wave of genetic medicine. Addition emerges from stealth with ...
The New York Times

5 Steps to Solve (Almost) Any Problem

You probably don’t need more time. By Jancee Dunn When I look back on all the major decisions I’ve dithered over, I could scream. It took me a decade to commit to becoming a parent. I wavered for a ...
GeekWire

Seattle’s traveling math magician on why problem-solving matters more than ever in the age of AI

Jenny Quinn, executive director of the Seattle Universal Math Museum, shows off a solved Fibonacci sequence puzzle. (GeekWire Photo / Maddie Stoll) Jenny Quinn travels with math in her backpack. She ...
WGAL

Cumberland County expands forensic lab to speed up crime-solving

THAT POLICE RESPONSE WAS FOR. IT’S 634 RIGHT NOW, AND INVESTIGATORS IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY SAY AN INVESTMENT IN A NEW GUN LAB IS GOING TO HELP THEM SOLVE CRIMES, COULD HELP POLICE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.
Wired

Student Solves a Long-Standing Problem About the Limits of Addition

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing. Take addition. It’s a straightforward operation: One of the first ...
Quanta Magazine

Graduate Student Solves Classic Problem About the Limits of Addition

A new proof illuminates the hidden patterns that emerge when addition becomes impossible. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing. Take addition. It’s a straightforward ...
New Atlas

200-year-old "algebra wall" shattered with a bold new approach

New research details an intriguing new way to solve "unsolvable" algebra problems that go beyond the fourth degree – something that has generally been deemed impossible using traditional methods for ...