Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...

Eight students from a solar physics research group led by Juie Shetye, New Mexico State University astronomy assistant ...

The development of humans and other animals unfolds gradually over time, with cells taking on specific roles and functions ...

Helping young people tap into their excitement about the night sky helps them build confidence and opens career pathways they ...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and crops, archaeologists say.

This video breaks down how scientists and economists use very large numbers, with clear examples from astronomy, mathematics, and modern wealth statistics to make scale easier to understand. Trump ...

Astronomers studying the outer solar system say the unusual alignment of distant objects points to the influence of Planet 9. Mathematical models suggest the odds of this pattern occurring by chance ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

When South Dakota Mines Professor Emeritus Donald Teets, D.A., set out to understand contradictory claims in two calculus textbooks 30 years ago, he didn’t expect it to launch a new chapter in his ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college in the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News is introducing ...