The Fermi Paradox, named after physicist Enrico Fermi, highlights a contradiction in our understanding of alien life: despite ...

Most elementary teachers are expected to teach all subjects, but many don’t have a strong math foundation, experts say.

Lawmakers who back the change say the new math requirements more realistically reflect what high school students need to know ...

Underscoring Wesleyan’s commitment to its scholar-teachers, these annual prizes are made possible by gifts from the family of ...

In 1900, at the grand amphitheater of the Sorbonne in Paris, David Hilbert stood before a crowd of mathematicians and ...

SciFi books and films never explain how faster-than-light speed works. Wormholes are one solution, but there are problems.

Since the late 1980s, archaeologists have been working at the site of the ancient city of Zeugma in eastern Turkey -- founded ...

The following comment was also submitted to the Martha’ Commission. Please do the numbers. This Island is a finite piece of ground. Before you, in the aggregate, are proposals to add at least 500 ...

Ultrathin bismuthene islands on graphite slide freely in one direction and pause unpredictably, revealing new ways to control ...

Many years ago, I had occasion to invite a distinguished American mathematician to India. He was a highly accomplished ...