Why making lunar standard time is in everyone's best interests.

A math problem has left the internet stumped and social media users scrambling from their nearest protractor to figure it out. Students, teachers and social media are baffled by a tricky math question ...

ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

Two independent research teams have achieved a longstanding goal in physics: building a working nuclear clock. The devices, developed by Beichen Huang and colleagues at Tsinghua University and by Luca ...

For the first time, scientists used an atomic nucleus as a clock. The world’s most precise timepieces are made using atoms, specifically their electrons. But clocks based on atomic nuclei — protons ...

A dribble and a jump shot, followed by a fractions task. That is what physical education classes looked like for a group of pupils, and the pupils not only found the lessons more engaging than ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

If bitcoin and Ethereum had been invented on the same day, nobody would have heard of bitcoin. I sold every bitcoin Bit Digital held and deployed the proceeds into Ethereum. I have built one of the ...

A fireworks display launches 40 fireworks in sequence. Each firework reaches a random height, independent of the height that ...

The best-yet test of artificial intelligence’s mathematical mettle has released its first official round of results. The verdict is that large language models (LLMs) are emerging as useful—albeit ...

From counting sheep to cows jumping over the moon, bedtime is full of math traditions and opportunities to use math talk. Try ...

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...