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The recent news about plummeting math preparation among University of California, San Diego, students was startling: Over five years, the number of incoming students deemed to…

Cassidy sent information requests to 35 universities. Bill Clark/CQ–Roll Call Inc./Getty Images A Senate committee chair has launched an investigation into what he says is a…

On October 1, 2022, something strange happened in the Philippines: 433 people won the jackpot in the local lottery. For this particular lotto, six numbers ranging…

If the cards shown here are rearranged to form four new poker hands of five cards each, what is the lowest possible winning or tying hand?When…

Remainder. Product. Algorithm. Ordered pair.Seemingly jargony words and phrases like these, referring to specific math concepts, might seem complex for elementary school students to grasp. But…

December 19, 20253 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmThe 10 Biggest Math Breakthroughs of 2025Hidden Fibonacci numbers, a new shape and the search for a…

The nine rectangles A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H and I overlap one another. Rectangle A intersects rectangles D and F; this relation can…

November 19, 20253 min readNew Research Shows How AI Could Transform Math, Physics, Cancer Research, and MoreA new paper shows ChatGPT-5 emerging as a tool that…

“Hoisted by their own GPTards.” That’s how Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed…

Spektrum der Wissenschaft, restyled by Amanda MontañezThe hour, minute and second hands of this clock are all the same length and move smoothly in a circle.…