A London-based dentist may have cracked a centuries-old mathematics puzzle hidden in one of the most famous anatomical ...

This geometric figure — first identified by dentist William Bonwill in 1864 — is formed by connecting the two points where ...

Is financial freedom the ultimate objective of personal finance? How much is enough to say we are free? How and when do we know? These were some of the questions our Airbnb host, a young woman of 35, ...

Mathematicians soon hypothesized that as your set gets bigger, the biggest sum-free subsets will get much larger than N /3.

Teachers can get kids comfortable with math concepts by using numeracy-focused vocabulary in everyday classroom activities.

Tool’s Lateralus isn’t just a song—it’s a mathematical and spiritual journey. This video explores how the band incorporated ...

The most famous packing problem concerns spheres. In 1611, the astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed that the densest way to ...

Using a notion called integer partitions, mathematicians have discovered a new way to detect prime numbers while also ...

Your inhalation and exhalation pattern is not only unique to you, it can be a marker of your physical and mental state, study suggests. Your inhalation and exhalation pattern is not only unique to ...

Now, three mathematicians have finally provided such a result. Their work not only represents a major advance in Hilbert’s program, but also taps into questions about the irreversible nature of time. ...

Analysis of almost three million children captures when ‘mathematical gender gap’ first emerges and could help focus efforts to stop girls from falling behind. Analysis of almost three million ...