The Virginia native is credited with her work at the Naval Proving Ground, where she calculated ways to model the ...

For most of us who are not astronomers, the image that comes to mind when describing a reflecting telescope is of a huge instrument in its own domed-roof building on a mountain top. But a reflecting ...

This year has seen some amazing advancements in fundamental mathematics. Researchers have made breakthroughs in geometry, topology, chaos theory, and more. And a startling three of our top 10 ...

Mathematics is, at its core, an art. Like painters, musicians or writers, mathematicians create and explore new worlds. They test, and then push past, the limits of their imagination. They engage with ...

Editor’s note: The following, focused on the Spring Cove School District, is the fifth installment of the series looking into how Blair County schools fared on the state assessment tests. The data for ...

Investigating NLP through a philosophical lens has recently caught researchers’ eyes, as it bridges computational methods with classical schools of philosophy. This paper introduces a philosophical ...

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 ...

1 African Center of Excellence for Innovative Teaching and Learning Mathematics and Science (ACEITLMS), Rwamagana, Rwanda 2 University of Rwanda-College of Education (UR-CE), Kayonza, Rwanda ...

Austin Peay State University honored a new class of campus leaders at the induction ceremony for Omicron Delta Kappa. Held in the Morgan University Center Room 303, faculty, family and peers came ...

President Trump said Wednesday he and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum will “fix” the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C. The president posted a video of workers attending to the pool, ...

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 ...

The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a ...