Long before industry, our ancestors faced toxic metals, including lead. This exposure may have shaped the evolution of human ...

Math. It’s that five-letter word that still manages to haunt the dreams of both high school sophomores and overworked college students alike. Derivatives, matrices, word problems that somehow involve ...

A simple change in species composition can impact the course of evolution: A research team from the University of Bern and the University of British Columbia in Canada shows that the presence of just ...

For centuries, the greatest minds — from Euclid to Euler — have wrestled with problems that seem simple to state but ...

Scientists have uncovered a 151-million-year-old midge fossil in Australia that challenges long-held views about insect ...

A team of international physicists has brought Bayes’ centuries-old probability rule into the quantum world. By applying the “principle of minimum change” — updating beliefs as little as possible ...

Two Boise State graduate students won National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program awards, ...

Some Alberta cities will use a 'kangaroo board' to tabulate complex, at-large election ballots after the province banned ...

The internet is torn over an elementary-level math equation which left many scratching their heads. The viral math problem has X users stumped - but the answer comes from lessons learned in fifth or ...

I'm a Lego expert and I love the Lego Ideas Evolution of STEM set. Could it be the best science-themed set ever, despite some ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...