Focusing on the annual rate of change, rather than month-to-month inflation changes, distorts the economic reality and makes a bad situation look worse, says economist John Horn.

Mathematical modeling speeds up the process of programming bacterial systems to self-assemble into desired 2D shapes.

Researchers use machine learning to automatically solve, explain, and generate university-level math problems at a human level.

Their swirling, clustering behavior might someday inform the design of self-assembling robotic swarms.

Mathematical model suggests information processing lies at the heart of decision making.

Women scientists have seen gains in STEM since the addition of Title IX, but culture remains an obstacle.

The system rapidly scans the genome of cancer cells, could help researchers find targets for new drugs.

A mathematician explains how language can keep your online accounts safe and pinpoint your location on the planet.

Students' "opportunities to learn and develop mathematics literacy are so few as to almost be nonexistent" in eighth grade math textbooks, researchers say.