A controversial new movement promoting the "science of math" has come into the math establishment's crosshairs.

It's been a wild week for Harvard University, and not the kind that makes the alumni newsletter. At a recent press meet, US President Donald Trump took a swipe at Harvard students, mocking them for ...

Walter “Wally” Gilbert is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus and Emeritus Chair of the Society of Fellows at ...

Laboratories turned to a smart workaround when COVID‑19 testing kits became scarce in 2020. They mixed samples from several ...

A new study digs into why modern AI models stumble over multi-digit multiplication and what kind of training finally makes the task click.

M ost parents — especially mothers — know the near-constant train of questions running through our heads. Redesign my ...

The US says its oil-for-stability plan can revive Venezuela’s economy. The underlying numbers tell a more complicated story.

How the dark forces of conspiracism remade MAGA’s youth movement.

Friction is the difference between war on paper and war as it actually is. —Carl von Clausewitz, On War North Korea is not Venezuela. While US President Donald J. Trump characterized his recent ...

Mike has worked in the Joystiq Network since 2006, as lead blogger and senior editor on WoW.com and one of the founding editors on Massively.com. Currently, he is a contributing editor on Joystiq, and ...

Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities Katherine Elkins is the director of the integrated program in humane ...