Math

Many languages recycle words, giving them different meanings. For example, in English, “run” can mean to move quickly but also to manage something, like “run a company.” In Spanish, “lengua” is both the word for […]

Scientists working on the revolutionary ‘R’ programming language invented at the University of Auckland have won a top award intended to be a Nobel Prize for statisticians.This article was originally published on this website.

Every day, millions of people play Wordle, the popular New York Times game that challenges users to guess a secret five-letter word. Using information theory, a team of researchers at Binghamton University, State University of […]

Imagine you poll your friends on how many minutes per pound to roast a turkey. Five respond with 15 minutes; one answers 33 minutes. The most popular model of conformity, the French-Harary-DeGroot model (or more […]

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 […]

How do children learn math? It’s shaped by what they know as well as their motivation and engagement. Historically, research on children’s math learning has been focused on parents’ cognitive practices (such as math talk—informal […]

From June 11, countless millions of people will be following the football World Cup in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. They will discuss their team’s performance, talk like experts about tactics and formations, and cower […]

Are two sets of data genuinely different, or is it because of randomness? This question, known as the two-sample testing problem, becomes notoriously difficult in modern datasets, because they are often high-dimensional, complex, and differences […]

Team Australia kicked it long from the goalkeeper. Switzerland took a slower approach and preferred short passes over long drives. Spain, on the other hand, tended to string the ball with sharp, sideways passes across […]

A Dartmouth College study is the first to map the interplay of personal choice and social networks that has led to the United States being one of the world’s most heavily armed countries, with 120 […]