A classic math rule now handles infinity. New work strengthens the math behind physics and unbounded systems. % ...

The Ethereum network's switch to ZK proofs is as big a change as The Merge in 2022. Here's how it's expected to roll out across 2026.

A professor who refused to bow to activist progressives and parrot land acknowledgements has scored a major First Amendment legal victory — after a years-long battle. “I’m not going to be silenced.

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Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...

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This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her students. Then Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson stepped up to the challenge.