As pennies begin to disappear, states are grappling with a "rounding" problem for cash purchases that would have included them in the past.

In industrial plants around the world, tiny bubbles cause big problems. Bubbles clog filters, disrupt chemical reactions, reduce throughput during biomanufacturing, and can even cause overheating in ...

David Cutler is in the spotlight for his work on a tasty-sounding mathematics problem. In January, the New York Times featured a research paper authored by Cutler and Neil Sloane, the founder of The ...

A straightforward conjecture about runners moving around a track turns out to be equivalent to many complex mathematical ...

As prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket offer more ways to bet on elections, war, the Oscars and more, their dangers are growing.

When Joan King, VP of e-commerce for Crate and Barrel, explained the reasoning behind their Mobile Tote system, she mentioned something that most retail analysts glossed over entirely. “It’s not great ...

When natural disasters or extreme weather events hit, delivering aid quickly and efficiently to those affected is crucial. Humanitarian relief efforts commonly rely on the combination of trucks and ...

“The Pentagon and OpenAI are saying to the public, You’re just going to have to trust us. And the public is saying, Well, we don’t.” By Kevin RooseCasey NewtonRachel CohnWhitney JonesVjeran PavicChris ...

The beauty of pattern-based learning is its transferability. Once you grasp the core idea behind, say, the "Two Pointers" technique, you can apply it to a range of problems, from finding pairs that ...