A friend says she warned Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt about the dangers of becoming involved with the “Zizians,” a cultlike ...

Podcast: This episode explores whether children’s weaker selective attention is a hidden strength by addressing findings on attention, memory, and childhood learning.

Researchers found a hidden mathematical rule in tree-like art. Branch thickness follows a predictable ratio, making trees ...

I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years, I noticed that students were always interested in the history of ...

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Parents' levels of math anxiety were assessed when their children were three years old, and their children's mathematical development was tracked from ages three to eight. The aim of the study was ...

To get treats, apes eagerly pointed them out to humans who didn’t know where they were, a seemingly simple experiment that demonstrated for the first time that apes will communicate unknown ...

Researchers model how new ideas emerge using mathematics The ERRWT model reveals patterns in creative discovery Findings could refine innovation strategies in various ...

We all know that calculus courses such as 18.01 and 18.02 are univariate and vector calculus, respectively. Modern applications such as machine learning and large-scale optimization require the next ...

The body-positive movement has encouraged people, especially women, to see beauty in all shapes and sizes, and it's reminded us that body ideals are culturally constructed and not based on science.