Evansville college basketball player sinks this 3-pointer; the crowd went nuts. Here's why

This was the moment a crowd of Gen Alpha kids had been waiting for with each point Evansville put on the scoreboard at a ...

Forget AGI—Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules

On Thursday evening, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that ChatGPT has started following custom instructions to avoid using em-dashes. “Small-but-happy win: If you tell ChatGPT not to use em-dashes ...
University of Nevada, Reno

Ask the Professor: Why do we use a sideways 8 to represent infinity?

Professor Raúl Rojas has published a book about how symbols have been used throughout history in mathematics. The work was translated into English this year.
Edutopia

A 5-Stage Strategy Students Can Use to Tackle Word Problems

Stage 5: Justify thinking. A vital habit that many students need to solidify is recontextualizing after they solve ...

A Word, Please: And may your all your Christmas cards be right

The holiday card season is about to start. Now's a good time for an apostrophe refresher, according to grammar expert June ...
Scientific American

How to Identify a Prime Number without a Computer

For years, a French mathematician searched for a proof that a gigantic number is prime. His method is still used 150 years ...

Bees learn to read simple 'Morse code'

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that an insect—the bumblebee Bombus ...