Penn’s Math Department will restructure its linear algebra and differential equations sequence as of summer 2026, replacing MATH 2400 and 2410 with two new courses: MATH 2200 and MATH 2300. The ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

While math word problems are widely used in classrooms at all grade levels to help put numbers, operations, and equations into context and connect math to the real world, they also increase the ...

Astronomers are puzzled, and that’s putting it mildly. A strange pattern of pulses, repeating like clockwork, has been detected from 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object cruising through our Solar System.

A middle school teacher in Louisiana ended up in handcuffs after a random drug check allegedly uncovered a stash of cocaine in her bag. Virginia Somers, 47, is a math intervention teacher at Westdale ...

A Westdale Middle School math teacher was arrested Tuesday morning after a drug-sniffing dog alerted police to cocaine in a bag on her desk. Virginia Somers, 47, was booked into the parish prison on a ...

Assign the digits 0 through 9 to the letters below to create valid sums. Each letter stands for a unique digit, and all occurrences of that letter stand for the same digit. (For instance, if A = 6, ...

A new research paper from Apple details a technique that speeds up large language model responses, while preserving output quality. Here are the details. Traditionally, LLMs generate text one token at ...

Details about OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-5 model have leaked. GitHub accidentally published details of the upcoming model and its four variants in a blog, which was later withdrawn. The leak points to ...