Although not a household scientific name like Albert Einstein or Isaac Newton, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan—who tragically died in 1920 at the age of 32—was one of the greatest minds in ...

Travis Gettys is a senior editor for Raw Story based in northern Kentucky. He previously worked as a web editor for WLWT-TV and a contributing writer for the Kentucky Enquirer, and he also wrote for ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1974, five years before he wrote his Pulitzer Prize–winning book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter was ...

Dan Look is the first person to admit he’s not 100% sure who makes up the audience for his new book. It’s called “Math Cats,” and while there’s something in it for cat lovers or mathematicians, no one ...

As we've mentioned before, John Cleese and Eric Idle have been locked into a prolonged social media feud, stemming from Idle’s dissatisfaction with the group’s current management, by Terry Gilliam’s ...

Math has always been a tricky subject for many of us, abstract, rigid, and often intimidating. But thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), that’s not the case anymore. AI-powered tools are ...

Journal Editorial Report: Public schools compete for students as more parents opt out. A study of French schoolchildren published this summer in the journal Nature found girls fall behind boys in math ...

President Donald Trump reiterated his claim, on 17 August 2025, that tariff revenues would be sufficient to reduce the United States’ towering debt burden. Speaking to the media earlier this month, he ...

What subjects are on the SAT? This is a common question for students gearing up for college. As I researched and gathered information for this guide, I saw that the national average SAT scores fell ...