New research reveals why even state-of-the-art large language models stumble on seemingly easy tasks—and what it takes to fix ...

Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number and double the other. After crossing out rows with ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Numberphile revived an ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles—also called Egyptian or Russian math, where you repeatedly halve one number ...

When the lights go out in winter, you are not thinking in abstract kilowatts, you are thinking about food spoiling and rooms turning cold. Running a fridge and a heater from backup power is absolutely ...

Ling, A. and Pandya, N. (2025) Quantum Computing and Quantum Sensing: A Pedagogical Introduction to Emerging Quantum Technologies. Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics, 13, 4341-4354. doi: ...

An early grid battery was installed in the Atacama Desert in Chile 15 years ago. Now, as prices have tumbled, they are increasingly being used around the world. Andes Solar IV, one of the largest ...

A first-of-its-kind national trial shows that public Montessori preschool students enter kindergarten with stronger reading, ...

Managing your inbox is a never-ending task, which is why we should seek to simplify it as much as possible. When emails pile up, you start overthinking what you need to do—I know I do, anyway. But if ...

When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...

So many productivity methods ask you to prioritize your daily tasks by considering how much time or effort they'll require, then tackling the resource-heavy ones first. For some people, that's a solid ...

Saving your first $100,000 is one of the hardest financial tasks a working person can undertake. However, experts stress that ...

ULANQAB, China—The U.S. invented the most powerful artificial-intelligence models and controls access to the most advanced computer chips, but China has an ace to play in the global AI contest. China ...