“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

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Between themed TV specials, novelty candy flavors and the pageantry of the mass-produced costume, Halloween has become so thoroughly Americanized that we often forget the holiday grew from much more ...

When I heard a group of math teachers was accused of celebrating murder, I thought surely this was satire. A Babylon Bee headline: “Algebra Department Plots Assassination Joke.” Something absurd ...

Math teachers at a high school in Arizona have received hundreds of threats after social media posts circulated over the weekend alleging that their Halloween costumes mocked the killing of ...

A group of math teachers in Tucson, Arizona, came under fire for their Halloween costumes this weekend. The teachers’ bloodied white t-shirts with the phrase “Problem solved” written across the chest ...

Scarier than your neighbor’s illuminated lawn zombies, 800 trick-or-treaters hitting your street tonight, or your inflation-weary candy budget are the horrors that could be hiding in your home right ...

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Don’t let your Halloween pumpkin haunt the landfill this November. More than 1 billion pounds (454 million kilograms) of pumpkins rot in U.S. landfills each year after Halloween, according to the ...