A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do?

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Does trying to calculate a tip without your smartphone calculator make you break out in a cold sweat? If you answered “yes,” you’re in good company. Even the most brilliant scientists and engineers ...

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Nigerian senior secondary school students in arts and humanities will no longer be required to present a credit in mathematics in their Senior School Certificate Examination, organised by the West ...

The meme exploded into youth culture with a video of a boy who delivers a giddy “six seven” at a basketball game. CAM WILDER The name of this fall’s most obnoxious classmate: Six Seven. Math teacher ...

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Mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani’s campaign rolled out a “savings calculator” that estimates how much money New Yorkers would be spared under his watch – but rivals claim it’s using “fantasy” math.

The White House press secretary fully embraced her boss’ habit of mathematically impossible bragging when she repeated President Donald Trump’s claim that his administration was forcing pharma ...

When Pope Francis died in April on Easter Monday, the news triggered not only an outpouring of mourners but also a centuries-old tradition shrouded in secrecy: the papal conclave. Two weeks later 133 ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

Alfred Nobel's prestigious awards honor many fields but notably exclude mathematics. This has sparked curiosity for years. While popular myths about personal rivalries exist, historical research ...