Research and Discoveries

4+ hour, 37+ min ago   (196+ words) Anyone who has tried to move a large sofa through a narrow hallway knows the moment when ordinary intuition begins to fail. The sofa fits through the corridor, the doorway is wide enough, and yet at the corner everything stops....

2+ hour, 23+ min ago   (754+ words) AI has grown so adept at solving mathematical puzzles that critics fear the flood of new proofs it creates will overwhelm academics and actually set the field back. Until now, AI has had limited impact on other areas of science,…...

8+ hour, 51+ min ago   (238+ words) TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WDNews) — The Saban Center for STEM Education will receive nearly $252,000 to expand hands-on learning opportunities for students and educators. According to the Alabama Department of Workforce, the Alabama STEM Council announced the $251,939.59 investment during an event Thursday. The…...

11+ hour, 12+ min ago   (16+ words) 111 Broadway, Suite 604New York, NY, 10006(212) 437-8300 © New York City Charter School Center 2025...

19+ hour ago   (238+ words) The University of Memphis professor will receive this year’s Balakrishnan Research Award for her contributions to applied mathematics and control theory and deliver a lecture on AI-assisted methods for controlling complex physical systems. This year, USC Viterbi School of Engineering…...

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (979+ words) A few days ago I came across a simple design example built around the idea “don’t trust the math.” Two groups of shapes were being compared. One was … What Should You Trust: Math or Your Eyes? A few days ago…...

1+ day, 53+ min ago   (562+ words) Researchers have shown that the four-eyed fish Anableps anableps evolved its aerial vision through developmental expansion of the ventral retina and a regional swap of opsin genes within conserved cone subtypes....

1+ day, 13+ hour ago   (183+ words) For Veerabhadran “Ram” Ramanathan, PhD ’74, life has unfolded through what he calls “happy accidents.” And now, Ram is honoring Cess, the mentor who shaped that journey. Now a distinguished research professor of climate sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (593+ words) How collaborating with teachers in the maths department is helping one school’s learners apply their maths skills in chemistry contexts, starting with ratio Maths in science lessons isn’t harder than maths in maths lessons. Talking to colleagues in your maths…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (706+ words) Chemistry World Neurodiverse students use different strategies to reason through chemistry problems Can changing the way chemistry is taught help neurodiverse students? Neurodivergent students are more likely to struggle to reason consistently through structural chemistry problems than their non-neurodivergent peers,…...