Math is crucial in many fields yet more students are now functionally innumerate and many students do not go on to qualify ...

The flood of computer-generated images across advertising and social media is, subconsciously, getting people used to seeing AI faces.

From the perspective of a math educator, this is not a minor abuse of statistics but a failure of epistemic responsibility, one that undermines the possibility of public reasoning itself. Mr. Trump’s ...

If you search for the highest IQ on record, you will likely encounter the number 228, attributed to columnist Marilyn vos Savant, or the number 230, attributed to mathematician Terence Tao. However, ...

True or False: -40ᵒ Celsius is equal to -40ᵒ Fahrenheit. Answer: True! Question: What value represents the sum of the first five prime numbers? Answer: 28. (2+3+5+7+11=28) Question: What mathematical ...

Large language models struggle to solve research-level math questions. It takes a human to assess just how poorly they perform. By Siobhan Roberts A few weeks ago, a high school student emailed Martin ...

I like to think I have quite a good mind – I can remember birthdays, mostly, I’m good in a pub quiz thanks to my nerdy childhood habit of reading encyclopaedias for fun – but Mensa and I really don’t ...

Crowds don’t usually gather around mathematicians — but this story is different. From teaching himself to read at age two to winning the Nobel Prize of mathematics, Terence Tao’s life defies ...