In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

U.S. employers and colleges are contending with more young people who are behind academically. Some are trying to make up where schools have failed. U.S. employers and colleges are contending with ...

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Donald Trump promised drug costs would drop “1,000 percent”—then claimed a $10 pill would become $20—in a head-spinning arithmetic car crash. In a Fox News hit that left viewers baffled, Trump said, ...

A sweeping investigation has revealed widespread fraud in mathematics publishing, where commercial metrics and rankings have incentivized the mass production of meaningless or flawed papers. The study ...

Researchers, teachers, and graduate students in Mathematics and related disciplines have expressed concerns about the UGC draft curriculum for Mathematics, 2025. “It is riddled with grave defects, and ...

In the 1960s, the Soviet climatologist and mathematician Mikhail Budyko set out to investigate the potential future of a planet on the brink of nuclear Armageddon. He started by looking some 600 ...

Despite the auto industry contributing 7 per cent to the country’s GDP, he cautioned that there was still a long way to go in terms of upskilling manpower. “The only way to discover the limits of ...

American high-school seniors’ scores on major math and reading tests fell to their lowest levels on record, according to results released Tuesday by the U.S. Education Department. Twelfth-graders’ ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. High school students hit historic lows in math and reading on national tests, continuing a decade-long decline ...

High schoolers’ reading and math scores dropped to the lowest level in decades, along with declines in science scores from eighth graders, according to the National Assessment of Education Progress ...