China recorded 7.92 million births last year, a decline from 9.54 million in 2024. A contraction in its birth rate to 5.63 ...

P/E reflects greed and fear. It is currently signaling greed. Warren Buffett advises us to be fearful when others are greedy.

A claim indicating that the world could end on Friday, November 13, 2026, traces back to a 1960 population study by University of Illinois researchers. The mathematical model suggested that the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

A report about declining math preparation at UC San Diego has been generating hysterical headlines in national news outlets. The steep drops in math performance of incoming students, highlighted in a ...

In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an ...

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 ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

Editor’s note: The EKG Detective will be a monthly column dedicated to illustrating the benefits of utilizing deductive logic as a method for interpreting ECG tracings. The column will highlight and ...