One useful feature of the Python math module is quick access to mathematical constants. You can make Python more effective as a scientific calculator by using these same functions with numerical ...

We've wondered for centuries whether knowledge is latent and innate or learned and grasped through experience, and a new ...

The calculator on your Apple devices can do more than add, subtract, multiply and divide. Here's how it can help you with all kinds of math problems. ICE arrests leader of Iowa's largest school ...

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When an iguana crawled from a burrowing owl nest, John Johnson picked up his air gun and started a war. The lizards never saw ...

The whiteboard in Professor Mark Stehlik’s office at Carnegie Mellon University still has the details of what turned into a ...

For decades, quantum computing has felt like something out of science fiction — abstract, theoretical, and always “10 years ...

I learned that government is not a faceless, bureaucratic machine. It’s ordinary people working incredibly hard to do a little bit of good. Austin Forrester is a junior at Georgetown University and ...

The reading and math scores of 12th graders have plunged to their lowest level in over 20 years. The scores, part of a test from the National Assessment of Education Progress, showed the average ...

When Del Norte High senior Tanay Shah was 6 years old, he went to India with his parents to visit relatives. An encounter during that trip set the now 17-year-old on a mission to give children ...

We think a sensible rule of thumb when considering whether to post something online is to ask yourself: Would I say this to someone’s face? If not, it’s time to hit the delete button. Many people, in ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...