A new study shows subtle brain stimulation can boost college students’ math abilities. Researchers at the University of ...

A study suggests that carefully controlled electrical stimulation of the brain may improve math skills, most significantly in people with weaker connections in a specific part of the brain.

Did you know there are more ways to shuffle a deck of cards than there are atoms in the universe? Seems crazy, but it's true.

A new series for the Health and Science section aims to make complex topics easy to dissect, and maybe even help people ‘fall ...

The secret beauty in apples, stars and the center of you. In the world of taxicab geometry, even the Pythagorean theorem takes a back seat. Trying to fit it all in? There’s a trick to it, even in 24 ...

The idea of an animal that can count or do math might sound like something out of a viral news story or TikTok video. But a ...

Mathematicians soon hypothesized that as your set gets bigger, the biggest sum-free subsets will get much larger than N /3.

Today, people use complex computing networks to search for prime numbers with millions of digits. But early mathematicians ...

An economist Donald Trump cited in calculations for his extra-high global tariffs says that the president should get an F- in math. University of Chicago economics professor Brett Neiman was a ...

BRUSSELS — As Donald Trump unveiled his list of tariffs on American trading partners in a bold attempt to reduce the United States' trade deficit, many are questioning how the duties were calculated.

This isn’t the first time a tricky math puzzle has caught everyone’s attention. Not long ago, another puzzle from the same account, Brainy Quiz, went viral. Here’s what it looked like: ...

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