How much of your school math do you actually remember? This quiz covers the full range of school math – from basic arithmetic to fractions, percentages, algebra, geometry, and beyond. Think of it as a ...

Delta Air Lines Inc. expects to incur more than $2 billion in higher fuel costs through June because of the Iran war, prompting the carrier to tread carefully and stick to its previous full-year ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

Delta Force is widely considered one of the most elite special operations units in the world, and its operators rely on some of the most advanced equipment available. While many proven weapons remain ...

At a secret meeting in 2025, some of the world's leading mathematicians gathered to test OpenAI's newest large language model, o4-mini. Experts at the meeting were amazed by how much the model's ...

Mathematics, like many other scientific endeavors, is increasingly using artificial intelligence. Of course, math is the backbone of AI, but mathematicians are also turning to these tools for tasks ...

Democracy feels intuitive, fair, and rational, yet mathematics tells a far more troubling story. In the mid-20th century, a formal proof showed that no voting system can fairly translate individual ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem that had stymied mathematicians for a century. In this case, the solvers weren't human. An artificial ...

This level 10 puzzle is no joke! Watch as the intricate Lotus design puts every bit of logic, patience, and problem-solving skill to the test. Can the impossible really be solved? Let’s find out piece ...