Professional mathematicians have been stunned by the progress amateurs have made in solving long-standing problems with the ...

Math anxiety grows from stress, culture, and experience, not ability. By changing how we teach, test, and talk about math, we ...

Mathematicians rely on numbers, but finding words to explain different levels of certainty has stymied everyone from the ...

Money problems can take many forms. You might be swamped with debt, struggling to save or pay for college for your kids or worried about outliving your resources in retirement. (Retirement? What ...

Constant tiredness, lacklustre skin, or disturbed sleep are often blamed on stress, but these symptoms can also point to a struggling liver. An unhealthy diet and irregular lifestyle habits gradually ...

It was in November, when I developed my ninth urinary tract infection (UTI) in four months, that I began to wonder if I had some awful disease. Could I have kidney disease – or even bladder cancer?

One of the first sentences I was ever paid to write was “Try out lighter lip stick colors, like peach or coral.” Fresh out of college in the mid 2010s, I’d scored a copy job for a how-to website. An ...

Small apartments don’t forgive permanent mistakes. This build solves that by using tension rods and just three screws to create a fully modular vertical structure. The weight stays on the floor, not ...

Abstract: Statistical learning with programming can be used to improve statistical literacy, teach students, and promote educational innovations in information-driven universities through ...

Operating on other planets pushed NASA to rethink even the most basic technology. To handle extreme terrain, temperature swings, and vacuum conditions, engineers redesigned the wheel from the ground ...

Abstract: Silicon-based, single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) can realize extremely weak light detection and are widely used in marine LiDAR, space exploration, fluorescence imaging, and other ...