When Old Town High School Math Teacher Kristen Thompson uses TriO—a virtual reality environment developed by researchers at ...

Words matter. And when it comes to learning math, they matter more than you might think.

Discover the fascinating journey of elevator creation in this video. Explore the intricate design and engineering processes involved in making elevators function efficiently and safely. #3d ...

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. A male ornate boxfish with distinctive, complex patterns of stripes and ...

From the earliest days, mathematics has typically received a hallowed treatment from those who have studied it. Plato, who studied a special set of five three-dimensional shapes now known as the ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

The creation of Tylenol as a brand name for the drug acetaminophen dates to 1955. Acetaminophen itself was first prepared in 1878, but it didn't receive widespread use until Tylenol's creation. The ...

This past weekend, I welcomed Casey and Mary to my front porch. We hugged and scanned each other with our usual chorus of, “Dang, girl. You look good.” Still, our hearts were all a little battered. We ...

With what the journal called an "intense yellow-orange pigmentation and white eyes," the roughly six-and-a-half-foot shark appeared to have "a condition known as albino-xanthochromism," an abstract ...

About 500 million years ago, the Grand Canyon was a great sea, and among the creatures it harbored was a newly discovered type of penis worm, armed with many rings of teeth. Penis worms are marine ...

Researchers have uncovered fossils belonging to a previously unknown ancient human relative. And they may have lived in the same time and place as the earliest-known members of the genus Homo, from ...