Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

Nvidia unfolded its datacenter roadmap out to 2027 in June 2024, when we learned about the “Vera” CV100 Arm server CPUs and the “Rubin” R200 GPU accelerators for the first time. And then Huang folded ...

Every year, math nerds and dessert enthusiasts unite to celebrate Pi Day on March 14, a date whose digits represent the first ...

Public capital subsidies run $20 to $25 billion yearly, yet the total subsidy per affordable unit is not tracked anywhere.

In 1968, the Army reported 128 enemy killed and three weapons found at My Lai. Nobody asked how those numbers made sense, and that failure to ask is the same one we keep repeating every time progress ...

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller natural numbers. They can only be divided by themselves and 1. And in a new ...

A caller named Bill from Pennsylvania put a question to consumer advocate Clark Howard on his podcast this week that cuts to the heart of how Americans think about restaurant tipping. “I’ve always ...

ICE says its planned SLC detention center will bring in 9,893 jobs and add $1.1 billion to Utah’s GDP. But the agency won’t ...

Indiana has approved a new grading system for schools that assigns A-F grades based on student performance on state tests, as ...

Indiana will assign points to students based on how well they do on state tests, attendance, diploma attainment, and other factors. These points will result in a letter grade for their schools.

It’s hard to think of a harder reverse in terms of definition – something quintessentially heavy coming, over time, to mean ...

A 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet reveals the oldest known trigonometric table, showing ancient scribes used precise triangle ratios.