Eugene Buchanan has explored waterways worldwide, but his heart floats on a river whose shifting characteristics always bring him home.

A 20-year-old exam that's been called the world's shortest IQ test recently gained popularity on social media, but it's a lot trickier than it seems.

Experts gave AI 10 math problems to solve in a week. OpenAI, researchers and amateurs all gave it their best shot ...

When grades fail to give students accurate information about their progress, we deprive them of the chance to adjust their strategies and reinvest in their learning.

This Valentine’s Day, professors from the Mathematics, Art, and English departments translate love, romance, and dating into mathematical, artistic, and literary terms to answer your deepest questions ...

Georgia, California, Tennessee, Utah and Oregon — have better aligned high school and college math courses in recent years, ...

Applied physicists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have demonstrated a new way to structure light in custom, repeatable, three-dimensional patterns, ...

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“Surreal” has become a kind of all-purpose adjective, one used to describe everything from an alien abduction to a meal at Arby’s. But in its original, art-movement sense—a marriage of hyper-reality, ...

“Reflection in a Dead Diamond” makes its Shudder streaming debut this Friday, December 5. Watch the new horror movie with an AMC+ add-on — available on Philo, DIRECTV, and Sling. From “Let the Corpses ...

I love filmmakers who not only have a lane and stick to that lane, but find new and inventive ways to breathe life into that lane. Belgian writer-directing duo of Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani ...