5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (154+ words) Meadville Tribune Katherine Johnson’s 2019 autobiography is titled ‘Reaching for the Moon: The Autobiography of NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson.’ Editor’s note: Founders & Guardians is a series The Meadville Tribune is publishing as America celebrates the 250th anniversary of…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (150+ words) Left to right: Simons Empire Faculty Fellows Lebing Chen, Sammy Luo, Yahong Yang, and Kunyan Zhang. This semester, Binghamton University, State University of New York welcomes a quartet of mathematicians and physicists who will help establish it as a major…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (405+ words) An 18-year-old California student has turned a complex physics problem into an AI experiment. Seth Jacob Nabat built a machine-learning system to help analyse high-energy particle collisions. His work earned him 10th place and a $40,000 prize in the 2026 Regeneron Science Talent…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (99+ words) The Globe and Mail Claudette-MacKay-Lassonde Excellence Scholarship 2026: Canyu Wu is awarded $25,000 by Polytechnique Montréal MONTREAL, Aug. 18, 2026 /CNW/ -- In a ceremony held earlier today, Polytechnique Montréal awarded the second Claudette-MacKay-Lassonde Excellence Scholarship to Canyu Wu, an undergraduate student in bioengineering at…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (194+ words) Kristian Dominek Barajas is head of quantum theory at Oxford Ionics, an IonQ company Because I’m relatively new to the field, I often have to break difficult questions down into simpler ideas before I can grapple with them. That has…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (848+ words) Essay: Behind the science of how sediment settles. In February 2018, I was aboard a small research vessel named the Questuary in Suisun Bay, at the edge of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Around midnight, a winter storm moved in. Waves kicked…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (286+ words) Before John Glenn flew Friendship 7 into orbit in February 1962, he refused to trust the new IBM 7090's trajectory calculations until Katherine Johnson had verified them by hand. She worked the equations for a day and a half. The numbers matched....

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (338+ words) The Palo Alto startup says its AxiomProver system has cracked four long-standing math problems, backed by $200M in Series A funding and a $1.6B valuation. A startup founded by a Stanford dropout less than 15 months ago claims to have done something that…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (304+ words) • Dr. Fred Glover ranked #30 globally among the world's best mathematics scientists. • Entanglement’s Quantum Logic Core™ solved a PPE allocation simulation in 29 seconds, achieving 90% higher efficiency than a supercomputer. • SeQure, Inc. (an Entanglement spin-out) demonstrated cybersecurity detection speeds 1000x faster than existing…...

4+ mon, 4+ day ago   (520+ words) The competitive Hertz Fellowship provides up to five years of financial support for doctoral studies in the applied sciences, engineering and mathematics, including full tuition and an annual stipend, along with membership in a community of scientists and engineers working…...