If you’ve picked up a controller or scrolled through a gaming library lately, you’ll have noticed that the lines between ...

How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a system—like the orbit of planets.

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For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. If you love math, you’re probably already subscribed to Scientific American’s weekly newsletter Proof Positive. But if ...

Newly released national test scores show student achievement in math rising at the elementary school level—but not among middle school students, whose achievement has stagnated after years of steady ...

In James Bell’s math class at Chapman High School, sophomores are trying to pinpoint exactly where two lines cross. The students in this rural Kansas high school already solved for that meeting point ...

True crime fans have a new story to dig into on Netflix this week, with the release of the three-part drama series “The Witness.” The show takes viewers back to the early ’90s, after Rachel Nickell ...

The World Cup is taking over the United States this summer. But the not-so-secret American takeover of football has been building its foundations for some time now. Some may have turned their noses up ...

Gilbert Strang never set out to be an internet celebrity. He just wanted to teach math. For 61 years, the MIT professor has been standing at the chalkboard, leading students through linear algebra, a ...

Mobile messaging apps now sit at the center of how billions of people communicate. WhatsApp passed 3.3 billion monthly active users in January 2026, processes more than 100 billion messages a day, and ...

Utterly obsessed with gaming, anime, and manga for the past 25 years, Carley attended Florida State University, graduating with a degree in Japanese in 2012. A professional Japanese/English translator ...