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Yes, you CAN be a “math person” — as long as you follow these learning techniques.

Is mathematics woven into the very fabric of reality? Or is it merely a product of the human mind?

The space‑specific neurons in the owl’s specialized auditory brain can do advanced math.

We bake pies for Pi Day, so why not celebrate other mathematical achievements.

Once students master the basics of math, they are allowed to use calculators. The same should be true of writing and ChatGPT.

This network physicist is mapping the world's most significant data to create the most beautiful visualizations of information we have ever seen.

Math can explain why your laces spontaneously come untied — and how to stop it.

With a record-setting $1.9 billion jackpot, you'd think it's a no-brainer to buy a Powerball ticket. But the math truly shows otherwise.

Those that were the best at math didn't even show income satiation — there was no upper limit to how much money could make them happy.

How can you maximize the amount of love and happiness in your life? One of history's greatest scientists found the answer: with math.

Does it have a deeper significance — or is it just a number?

It's the best-known transcendental number of all-time, and March 14 (3/14 in many countries) is the perfect time to celebrate Pi (π) Day!

A person saved is a person earned.

Math offers good evidence that humans can solve any problem — as long as there’s money in it.

From the Big Bang to black holes, singularities are hard to avoid. The math definitely predicts them, but are they truly, physically real?

Ada Lovelace’s skills with language, music, and needlepoint all contributed to her pioneering work in computing.

It's spooky, and it's happening all around us. And inside us.

Michio Kaku believes math is the mind of God.

Although we still don't know the question, we know that the answer to life, the Universe, and everything is 42. Here are 5 possibilities.

Spend well, save well, live well.

A woman’s name would undermine the credibility of the mission. Names of former Nazis, however, were no problem.

They're not just watching you; they're also calculating.

The solution involves the infamous Navier-Stokes equations, which are so difficult, there is a $1-million prize for solving them.

Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.

If you can model anything in the Universe with an equation, mathematics is how you get the solution(s). Physics must go a step further.

Parity tasks (such as odd and even categorisation) are considered abstract and high-level numerical concepts in humans.

The game of Plinko perfectly illustrates chaos theory. Even with indistinguishable initial conditions, the outcome is always uncertain.

The authors call it "wildly theoretical" — but let's take a look, anyway.

A researcher explains a little-known niche within modern physics: animal collective behavior.

The use of the letter x as an unknown is a relatively modern convention.