At DuPage Children's Museum, the number 3.14 means something special. Not just because it represents π (pi), the mathematical ...

What if the deepest part of a black hole is not defined only by crushed matter and broken spacetime, but by the logic of prime numbers? That question has moved from mathematical curiosity to a serious ...

Today's biggest gaming news in one roundup. The Division 2 just broke its own concurrent player count record. Stay informed, game better.

A generation of kids got their first taste of freedom on the Big Wheel. It almost didn't survive the whims of corporate America.

It’s 1997. A young engineer from Shandong Province in China sat in a drab U.S. consulate waiting room, clutching a stack of documents. Rain streaked the window like a thousand impatient fingers. The ...

Autonomous cars need to see the world around them, kind of like we do, but with a lot more gadgets. They use a bunch of ...

Gerd Faltings, a number theorist at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, Germany, has won the 2026 Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics, the Norwegian Academy of ...

Gerd Faltings proved a conjecture that had been unsolved for six decades, using connections between numbers and geometry.

Like physics, math has its own set of “fundamental particles”—the prime numbers, which can’t be broken down into smaller natural numbers. They can only be divided by themselves and 1. And in a new ...

Saturday is Pi Day, a national celebration of the mathematical concept, which is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its ...