In a recently updated, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, Odrzywołek says he has, in essence, developed a two-button calculator that can compute the standard repertoire of a scientific calculator familiar ...

If you’re not from Sarasota, you may not be familiar with the term “Pine View kid.” Zare is one of them. The term refers to ...

I made peace with my path, not because it was perfect, but because it was genuinely mine. And as I get ready to leave Notre ...

One hundred years after John Wesley Powell’s historic trek down the Grand Canyon, National Geographic went on a commemorative ...

History has a frustrating habit of spotlighting the loudest voices in the room while quietly forgetting the people who actually changed the world. The names we learn in school - Edison, Darwin, Watson ...

WARNING! Due to a silly goose infiltration, this article is satirical in nature and should not be interpreted as factual.

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

A new era in mathematics may be on the horizon—one that some researchers have long desired. Mathematicians could soon use computers to verify proofs quickly and rigorously, ensuring published proofs ...

Number theorist Gerd Faltings has won this year’s Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo announced on 19 March. Faltings, ...

While much has been said about his pastoral service and religious views, only a few know that Pope Leo XIV also has a strong foundation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), much ...