Researchers have demonstrated, using a novel approach, that the original solution to Dudeney’s famous dissection problem is indeed the optimal one. In 1907, English author and mathematician Henry Erne ...

Anderson's time-travel mystery, 'The Expert of Subtle Revisions,' explores the way history is affected by how it is told and ...

Every year, mathematicians, educators, and enthusiasts mark March 14 as Pi Day, celebrating one of the most fundamental ...

Fort Dearborn Elementary School’s math students are raising funds to attend the Disney Imagination Campus, where they will ...

The latest “Nation’s Report Card” is out, confirming what many parents already knew: student learning is in freefall. The ...

Graduate students are involved in research at both the MA, MS, and PhD level. PhD students start research once they find a thesis advisor. There are four main research groups in the department: ...

The way we approach education, particularly in mathematics, has changed a lot over the past few years. As students face increasingly complex math problems, AI-powered tools have emerged as invaluable ...

In A.D. 79, a man who died in Mount Vesuvius' eruption near Pompeii had a rare transformation: His brain seemingly turned into glass. But scientists have long debated how it happened, because the ...

Last year, another mystery flu-like illness that killed dozens of people in another part of Congo was determined to be most likely malaria. Dr Head said: ‘The spread of cases across two health ...

Soon the mystery disease was in the nearby village of Danda before spreading even further. So far 419 cases have been confirmed and 53 people have died in the Équateur Province, a northwestern ...

After the second outbreak of the mystery disease began in the village of Bomate on Feb. 9, samples from 13 cases were sent to the National Institute for Biomedical Research in Congo’s capital ...