Every online bank transfer, private message and Bitcoin transaction rests on the assumption that some math problems are ...

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Powerball winning numbers are in for the Saturday, Jan. 3 drawing with a jackpot that reached an estimated $64 million ($28.9 million cash option). The winning numbers in Saturday's drawing are 18, 21 ...

Scammers are using publicly available information to steal your money — while spotty regulations and industry pushback have limited your ability to recover it. It’s easy to get robbed these days. All ...

Long before humans carved numbers into clay tablets or scratched equations onto stone, people in the ancient Near East were already dividing space, counting patterns, and thinking in mathematical ...

Finding evidence of ancient mathematics isn’t easy outside of written records, but a new study suggests that floral pottery from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia shows evidence of geometry ...

At the heart of Netflix's "Stranger Things" is a girl with a "011" tattoo on her wrist. Her name is Jane, but she is almost always called Eleven. Though unusual, it's not out of the question for ...

The Powerball jackpot continues to rise with an estimated grand prize of $820 million. If someone matches all six balls in Saturday night's drawing, the winner would take home the grand prize, which ...

The number of Gen Z college freshmen who are entering universities without high school math skills is skyrocketing — as SAT scores are plummeting, a stunning new report has found. Even more shocking: ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

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 ...

UC San Diego says it’s struggling to deal with a large and growing number of freshmen whose math skills are below middle-school level, leaving many unprepared to thrive at an institution famed for its ...