Test your problem-solving skills with these 62 lateral thinking puzzles. They’ll challenge you to think out of the box to ...

Some ancient writing systems cannot be deciphered. Can artificial intelligence help crack the codes of the past?

An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a human. By Shafik Quoraishee Shafik Quoraishee is a machine-learning engineer ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

What if the next new mathematical discovery didn’t come from a human mind, but from an AI? Imagine a machine not just crunching numbers but proposing original solutions to problems that have baffled ...

Abstract: The latest video coding standard, versatile video coding (VVC), was developed to achieve higher video compression efficiency and support more media applications than its predecessor, ...

Sven, a sales leader, received a call from a major customer who was furious. Their order arrived late, the product was damaged, and to top it off, their invoice didn’t reflect the volume discount ...

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...

New research details an intriguing new way to solve "unsolvable" algebra problems that go beyond the fourth degree – something that has generally been deemed impossible using traditional methods for ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...