NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to mathematician Eugenia Cheng about the Pascaline -- a 17th-century invention credited as the first mechanical calculator.

Researchers uncovered 53 genetic loci linked to quantitative ability, distinguishing it from general intelligence and ...

More than £100,000 has been uncovered in one vehicle during a stop and search on the A1(M). Just after 7pm on Thursday police pulled over a vehicle which was travelling southbound near Bradbury.

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

The Yankees have been in a tailspin for months and can't pull themselves out of it. And on Sunday, the team found a new way to make the season even more depressing with a brutal blooper-filled ...

A variation of a puzzle called the “pick-up sticks problem” asks the following question: If I have some number of sticks with random lengths between 0 and 1, what are the chances that no three of ...

Groceries have never been more expensive, but meal kit prices have remained fairly stable. I did the math to see how much three popular meal kit companies cost when compared with food bought at the ...

Today’s challenging puzzle is to find the missing number in a sequence of numbers from 1 to 53. So, if you think you're a genius with an IQ level of 140 or higher, then find the missing number in just ...

The return of Verdansk to Call of Duty: Warzone introduced numerous Easter eggs. Some provide in-game loot rewards, while others serve as nostalgic nods to the original map and game, reminding players ...

This paper proposes an analytic representation of sequence-space Jacobians in heterogeneous agent models with aggregate shocks in continuous time. Our approach is based on a pen-and-paper perturbation ...

When someone is saving money in equal instalments, the cumulative savings at each savings period form an arithmetic sequence. If the driver of a vehicle is travelling down a highway at a constant ...