Some common if questionable English usage may be technically wrong but just fine in real life, while other usage may depend ...

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 ...

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 ...

One morning last November, the mathematician Hector Pasten finally solved the problem that had been dogging him for more than a decade by using a time-tested productivity hack: procrastination.

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 ...

Forest Brook Middle School math teacher Tyrone Greaves presides over his class with a warm, loose manner that makes him seem almost like a favorite uncle, rather than students’ first period instructor ...

In a word: Chaos. That is the conventional understanding ... on Netflix at the moment is the science fiction series 3-Body Problem. Based on a Chinese novel series by Liu Cixin, the series ...