A team of physicists, geologists and signal theorists from the University of Granada, Spain, has developed a machine-learning-based algorithm designed to predict when Mount St. Helens will erupt. A ...

NPR’s Robert Krulwich has a whimsical piece on the one formula that rules it all, from unicellular organisms to whales and sequoias and humans. A math formula that governs our life and tells us when ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — If your child's math homework has you scratching your head confused, you're not alone. Parents who grew up in the '80s, and '90s learned basic formulas, such as long division to solve ...

Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology have developed MathDeck, an online search interface that allows anyone to easily create, edit and lookup sophisticated math formulas on the computer.

Research shows smart study beats long study for math formulas. Retrieval practice and spaced repetition are key. Quizzing helps more than re-reading. Spacing out reviews improves retention. Mixing ...

Two computer science graduates at Rochester Institute of Technology are helping to demystify mathematics with a search engine specifically made for sophisticated math. David Stalnaker and Nidhin ...

Greetings, mail parasites. Sorry if I’m in a bad mood, it’s just been a tough week here in the vague post-apocalypse. Food is scare, the cannibal mutants aren’t, and I just remembered it’s been 38 ...

As seen on The Big Bang Theory, Sheldon was a theoretical physicist at Caltech, who believed fields like biology and engineering were far too remedial for him. After growing up in East Texas, he ...

Excel percentage formulas can get you through problems large and small every day—from determining sales tax (and tips) to calculating increases and decreases. We’ll walk through several examples below ...