The viral math problem has X users stumped - but the answer comes in lessons learned in fifth or sixth grade.

This week marks my 40th anniversary as an NHS nurse. It’s been a privilege to serve across mental health and learning disability services, supporting people through some of their most vulnerable ...

Agencies Before founding Amazon, Jeff Bezos dreamed of becoming a theoretical physicist at Princeton but realized his limits after struggling with a complex homework problem, which a friend solved ...

Residents of Westbury in Johannesburg and surrounding areas have vowed to continue protesting until Johannesburg Mayor Dada Morero has visited the community and addressed them. Locals want answers ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — In the 64th minute of a still-tight game Tuesday night in America’s heartland, Christian Pulisic skated past a Japanese midfielder, glanced up, and saw a somewhat novel sight. Over ...

Apple just announced the $999 iPhone Air. It's the thinnest iPhone ever, but the screen is still relatively big, at 6.5 inches. This might be the phone that completely fixes my life? It's been a while ...

Math equations used to be a daily chore for many elementary schoolers. But entering adulthood means those less mathematically inclined often never have to think about them ever again. And it appears ...

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 ...

Philanthropist and billionaire heiress Liz Simons, who donated $250,000 to New Yorkers for Lower Costs, a PAC supporting Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, oversees a foundation that is reportedly ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Isotopes AI came out of stealth on Thursday with a healthy $20 million seed round. It offers an AI agent to solve a problem that data analytics products have struggled with for decades: The people who ...

Each week, Cookie Jam gives us a mix of easy and tricky Buzzwords. “Math that introduces letters as variables” is definitely one of the tougher ones, so here’s a little help. Algebra is a branch of ...