Blending algebra and geometry courses can give students more room in their schedules to take other courses like data science or statistics, concepts that are very present in people’s everyday lives.

The Dodgers’ $700 million cheat code, who is scheduled to pitch in Wednesday’s series finale, has skills with his bat, arm ...

This season's MLB trade deadline -- Aug. 3 -- is a little later than usual. Still, it's not too early in the season to begin pondering how teams might approach it. As we do with Stock Watch each June, ...

President Trump is falsely claiming that California's primary vote is rigged. Republican Steve Hilton needs to stand up for the state and its elections, which are free and fair.

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

In late May 2026, a rumor spread online that a video captured the moment U.S. President Donald Trump soiled his pants while staring at the White House columns. While the video is authentic and shows ...

A “deeply flawed comparison” shapes how the state allocates its higher education dollars. Anyone can view a sampling of recent comments, but you must be a Times subscriber to contribute. Log in above ...

At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s their favorite food? Answers came in English and Spanish—“todo” (everything), ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The actress stars as a haunted genius opposite Don Cheadle as her father in David Auburn’s 2001 drama. This revival, though, exposes the play’s lack ...

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

I enjoyed Mark Lewis’s lighthearted April 12 column on “Girl Math” and appreciated his humor and self-awareness. However, I’d like to gently point out something the column inadvertently reveals about ...