The human body is made up of a complex community of trillions of cells of diverse shapes and sizes, all working together to keep you alive. The smallest of these cells, like platelets and red blood ...

A new 13-sided shape is the first example of an elusive "einstein" — a single shape that can be tiled infinitely without repeating a pattern. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

Creatively tiling a bathroom floor isn’t just a stressful task for DIY home renovators. It is also one of the hardest problems in mathematics. For centuries, experts have been studying the special ...

We’ve created a generation — parents and children alike — paralyzed by numerators without denominators. A single alarming ...

One in eight freshmen at UC San Diego place below high-school levels in math, according to a university report. One in 12 do ...

In 1999, while sitting at a bus stop in Cuernavaca, Mexico, a Czech physicist named Petr Šeba noticed young men handing slips of paper to the bus drivers in exchange for cash. It wasn’t organized ...

As national math scores continue to drop, many parents are left wondering how to ignite a spark for math in their kids.

In California, more students fall behind in math every year they stay in school and the math achievement gap has grown faster ...