We were peers but she had a managerial instinct for solving problems and tackling stressful situations, which I greatly admired. People often pegged me as someone diligent and reliable ...

As NASA looks toward long-term lunar missions, a few problems have arisen -- specifically, how to create less trash in space and what to do with the trash that people create. That's why the US ...

Turn those people into quantum particles, and you are now facing a "quantum many-body problem." Quantum many-body problems are efforts to predict the behavior of a large number of interacting ...

The best way to spark a discussion about a math topic in a classroom can be unpopular with many students: solving word problems. Word problems often either come too late in a lesson or are disconn ...

While Google Docs might be the first online word processor that comes to mind for most of us, it's by no means the only option out there on the web—and one of the best alternatives is the free ...

On Windows 11 (and 10), the Photos app is the default experience for organizing and editing your pictures, but if it's causing problems, you have a few ways to resolve them, and in this guide ...

Students often struggle to connect math with the real world. Word problems—a combination of words, numbers, and mathematical operations—can be a perfect vehicle to take abstract numbers off ...

Fundamental problems about multiplication — about, say, how numbers factor into primes — suddenly become much deeper and more challenging as soon as addition enters the picture. One of math’s biggest ...

A post-mortem review of sorts. I did this for Season 1 as well, and looking over that review I am amazed at how many of the first season’s glaring problems remain alive and well in the sophomore ...

This makes one thing perfectly clear: Given the long trajectory of our decline, our problems are structural not cyclical. Hence, fixing them will require deep systemic changes, not merely policy ...

How do machine learning models do what they do? And are they really “thinking” or “reasoning” the way we understand those things? This is a philosophical question as much as a practical ...

A Rutgers University-New Brunswick professor who has devoted his career to resolving the mysteries of higher mathematics has solved two separate, fundamental problems that have perplexed ...