It all starts with something called the Kakeya conjecture. A “conjecture” is a math guess—an idea that seems true, but nobody ...

A seemingly simple math problem about dividing pizzas sparked debate when someone highlighted a potential flaw in the assumed answer.

Question sparked debate and confusion, with one user stating they were "honestly shocked" this was being asked of a ...

The Kakeya set—named for its discoverer Sōichi Kakeya—was complicated by a subsequent mathematician named Abram Samoilovitch ...

When pigeons outnumber pigeonholes, some birds must double up. This obvious statement — and its inverse — have deep ...

In his 1956 study The Power Elite, the left-wing sociologist C Wright Mills scorned the dominant notion that American ...

From undergraduate study to graduate, postdoctoral and faculty research, women within the Mellon College of Science’s ...

Back in the early 1900s, before calculators lived in our pockets, crunching numbers was painstaking work. Adding machines existed, but they weren’t exactly convenient nor cheap. Enter Vilin ...

The Social Security Administration is shuttering offices, and the Republicans’ own math suggests that they are planning big ...

If you thought Universal had maxed out the potential for Minions, think again: one park just started work on yet another Minions attraction. Gru may technically be the lead of the Despicable Me ...

The maddening thing about supply chain sustainability initiatives is that they can make financial sense initially. Then you dig deeper into the figures, and they don’t. Another, closer look, and maybe ...

It took one day for Christopher Stanley, appointed to the Fannie Mae board to help replace members fired by the Trump administration, to say “I quit.” Stanley, a cybersecurity engineer who has ...