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In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

WPI researchers have developed a safer, scalable lithium-metal battery recycling method and a simplified solid-state battery design, tackling two of the most significant challenges in battery tech.

Source: Olia Danilevich / Pexels Three years ago, the public release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the world’s most popular large language model, signaled that the Age of Artificial Intelligence had well and ...

Sven, a sales leader, received a call from a major customer who was furious. Their order arrived late, the product was damaged, and to top it off, their invoice didn’t reflect the volume discount ...

How bees, beer cans and big data all solve the same problem: not enough space. By Steven Strogatz Photo illustrations by Jens Mortensen Each installment of “Math, Revealed” starts with an object, ...

Do you sense something problematic about the word “problematic”? The way it’s used has changed a great deal in recent years, so much that it can now seem a little shifty. The journey that brought us ...

In May 2025, a claim (archived) circulated online that the tech entrepreneur and former Trump adviser Elon Musk solved an "unsolvable" math problem after a Harvard professor called him "rich but dumb.

This article is part of a series exploring the state of math education in Ohio. Brianna Swain does not remember learning much of anything in school while growing up in Columbus' Hilltop neighborhood.

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

It’s a common experience for many New York City parents. They sit down to help their kids with math homework, only to be totally flummoxed. Part of the reason is math instruction has undergone a ...

A dad in Virginia ended up turning to social media for help after becoming confused by a first-grade math problem. Math seems to be a problem for many young Americans. In 2022, the Programme for ...