Countries from Southeast Asia are dominating the global maths rankings, from Singapore to Vietnam and Taiwan. What factors ...

Ancient pottery reveals early farmers were using math thousands of years before numbers, embedding geometry and patterns into ...

The Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia arranged floral depictions on pottery with symmetry and numerical sequences, ...

This video explores counterintuitive math concepts that challenge common assumptions and change the way you think about ...

Cognitive distortions are biased thoughts that create negative patterns in the way a person thinks. They can be a symptom of depression and anxiety. Changing these habitual thoughts can help improve a ...

The amplituhedron is a geometric shape with an almost mystical quality: Compute its volume, and you get the answer to a central calculation in physics about how particles interact. Now, a young ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

The relationship between artistic training and academic performance has long intrigued educational psychologists, with particular attention to how disciplinary specialization shapes cognitive ...

Last year, onlookers observed a startling site on China’s Qiantang River: waves forming a grid-like pattern. Dubbed the “matrix tide,” this complex wave pattern was caused by the river’s famed tidal ...