There’s not much you can do when you’re watching your clothes spin round and around, waiting for the laundry to wash and dry.

A team of New York University scientists has created a gear mechanism that relies on fluids to generate rotation. The ...

Settlement ends Aristocrat Light & Wonder lawsuit, pulling Dragon Train and Jewel of the Dragon, after $127.5m payment and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

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In October 2024 Luke Durant, an independent researcher in San Jose, Calif., announced that he had discovered the largest known prime number—so enormous it would take years to write out in full. One ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them. Unfortunately, many of the strategies they’re using could be making things worse ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

You hear teachers talk about it all the time on Instagram and maybe you’ve even come across it during a club fitting. But what exactly is spin loft, and why should you care about it? On a recent ...