This post features biographies and notable quotes from oral history interviews with planetary geophysicist Lynnae Quick, ...

The irregular, swirling motion of fluids we call turbulence can be found everywhere, from stirring in a teacup to currents in the planetary atmosphere. This phenomenon is governed by the Navier-Stokes ...

Frustrated by the AI industry’s claims of proving math results without offering transparency, a team of leading academics has ...

Mathematics, like many other scientific endeavors, is increasingly using artificial intelligence. Of course, math is the backbone of AI, but mathematicians are also turning to these tools for tasks ...

But, both of these would require large structural changes for a course that teaches hundreds of students a year — something that can’t really happen in the near term. What could happen now, though, is ...

Emma Plamp and Mitchell Crothers don't exactly look forward to academic tests, but they tend to excel at them. That was ...

What's unusual about this is that Damian is a 16-year-old Mission Bay High sophomore who finished the requirements in two ...

The skintight suits skiers wear are not for aesthetics; they help control the physics of air. Loose fabric increases drag and ...

Learnvia is a new nonprofit collaborative backed by CMU that provides interactive lessons and artificial intelligence-powered ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

A new report from the University of California, San Diego has ignited a viral conversation on social media, because it demonstrates the alarming lack of preparation among incoming freshmen for college ...

Nothing sinks a golfer’s spirits like their ball zinging back out of the hole. Now, physics and mathematics explain how it happens. The anguish of a “lip out” occurs when a golfer putts a ball, and ...