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Math scores in the U.S. have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them.

For as long as Nvidia has dominated the market for artificial intelligence chips, customers have made clear they’d like to see more competition. It now turns out one of the most formidable ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them.

The authors have performed a potentially valuable new kind of analysis in connectomics, mapping to an interesting developmental problem of synaptic input to sensory neurons. While the analysis itself ...

Math rules and facts such as multiplication tables must be taught explicitly, memorized and mastered through practice. Only when this foundation is established can students progress to more complex ...

Too many leaders hamstring their team by putting up arbitrary barriers to their success or by putting up “Off Limits” signs to their work.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

New data from a 2025 Researchscape International survey conducted in partnership with LifeStance Health reveals what many of us already feel—our screens are draining us. While social media has its ...

An open letter to the U.S. Supreme Court: Like many others, I am trying to understand recent decisions of the Supreme Court. I grew up learning that there are three branches of government: the ...