The “4% rule” isn’t one rule — fixed percentage, fixed dollar, and inflation-adjusted withdrawals behave very differently in ...

Scientists have devised the most detailed map to date of the terrain hidden below the vast ice sheet blanketing Antarctica, ...

When everyone trusts the numbers and speaks the same analytical language, finance empowers the organization to make faster, ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

For centuries, the Pythagorean Theorem has occupied a unique position in mathematics: both elementary and profound. Its ...

Researchers in South Korea have developed a mathematical method to control random molecular fluctuations inside living cells, a breakthrough that could help explain why cancer can recur after ...

PEBBLE BEACH — Stevenson School is nearing the end of construction for a new math and science building to open next school year. The two-story, 35,000-square-foot academic space will include six math ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

UCSD has seen a dramatic increase in freshmen needing remedial math, rising from 1 in 100 to 1 in 8, attributed to pandemic disruptions, poor teaching methods, and a focus on DEI over academic ...

Fluorine is critical for biomedicine. This element can help drug compounds be more potent and last longer in the body, and its radioactive isotope, fluorine-18, powers medical imaging techniques such ...

The math is bad. Rising wages, taxes, insurance premiums, and other costs are outrunning revenue growth at many hotels. U.S. hotels are spending more to operate while taking in less revenue, a squeeze ...