The purpose, amount and content of homework has been debated for years. The rise of AI is raising questions about whether to adapt or eliminate it.

Growing up, Tai-Danae Bradley had no love for math. In 2008, she entered the City College of New York, where she played for the basketball team and hoped to start a career in sports nutrition. She saw ...

In the 1960s, the Soviet climatologist and mathematician Mikhail Budyko set out to investigate the potential future of a planet on the brink of nuclear Armageddon. He started by looking some 600 ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Some years after his theory of relativity changed our fundamental understanding of the concept of time, Einstein wrote that “there is no audible tick-tock ...

If you read enough science fiction, you’ve probably stumbled on the concept of an emergent artificial intelligence that breaks free of its constraints by modifying its own code. Given that fictional ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

It was completely predictable that President Donald Trump would call on Senate Republicans to end the custom of the ...

Key Points ・President Donald Trump announced a plan to distribute at least $2,000 per person to most Americans, funded by ...