For years, Rutgers physicist David Shih solved Rubik's Cubes with his children, twisting the colorful squares until the ...

John Pendry is known for creating an invisibility cloak. Twenty years on, he has used the same principles to fashion an even ...

One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.

The IRS is warning that scammers may try to trick taxpayers by making false promises about eligibility for new or expanded ...

Mathematical understanding should be a goal for every student and something they feel capable of achieving. But translating ...

You know Social Security will be there to help you cover some of your costs in retirement. But if you don't know how much ...

David Krumholtz led the forgotten crime show Numb3rs, a 6-season CBS series that follows an FBI agent and a math professor solving crimes using math.

Highly entertaining stop-motion movies like Chicken Run, Wallace & Gromit, and Shaun the Sheep are made with an astounding ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

It seemed that many were quick to figure out the equation, while others definitley struggled. You’re never too old to learn something new. People are losing their minds over how simple — yet tricky — ...

Let’s make one thing clear: nobody likes a show-off. But everybody, everybody loves a surprise genius. You know the quiet one who, without warning, solves the restaurant bill down to the last cent, ...