In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of ...

"The kid starts cackling, and I realise he invented his own question in order to trick me into saying it," the teacher wrote.

While 630 young math prodigies were sitting in a conference room on Australia’s sunshine coast, readying their pencils for the International Math Olympiad, a potential rival was still en route from ...

Minecraft has come a long way since its initial inception, with players all around the world jumping in every day. From embarking on new Survival Worlds to racing towards the End, to trying their luck ...

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although ...

Tanks are built to survive explosions—but they’re no match for a weapon that uses geometry to create a hypersonic jet of molten metal. From the invention of the shaped charge to why cardboard and ...

RSM Visiting Scholar Noah Giansiracusa's new book explores how non-mathematicians can wield algorithmic tools to reclaim their agency. Robin Hood Math, available August 5 from Penguin Random House, ...

Police in Florida are eating crow after it emerged that they arrested a random man in August of 2024, based on a lead generated by facial recognition software, and charged him with a horrifying crime ...