Explore the origins of Pi Day from San Francisco's Exploratorium to global recognition, blending math, culture, and pie in a ...

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PDFs with accessible mathematics have reached a practical turning point. For the first time, complex equations embedded in PDF documents can be navigated, spoken, and rendered in braille by assistive ...

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AI is very good at sounding right even when it's wrong.  Still, if you can't afford to hire a trusted, trained human to help ...

What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains ...

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For as long as scientists have been trying to understand the behavior of the electrically charged fourth state of matter known as plasma, there have ...

Whether in the kitchen or on a workshop floor, robot assistants that can fetch items for people could be extremely useful.

By incorporating insights from canine companions, researchers enable robots to use both language and gesture as inputs to help fetch the right objects.

A 3,700-year-old Babylonian clay tablet reveals the oldest known trigonometric table, showing ancient scribes used precise triangle ratios.