When colleges host STEM Career Days, the high school students who attend are far more likely to pursue a career in a STEM related field.

The same math that explains the synchronization of pendulum clocks and clapping audiences also clarifies how fireflies coordinate light shows.

Solving crimes with forensic genetic genealogy is slow and complicated. A new mathematical analysis could crack cases 10 times faster.

What's the best way to organize students in school to maximize everyone's learning? Researchers have turned to math to figure it out.

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.

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

Mathematicians have been trying to understand the turbulence that arises when a flow interacts with a boundary, but a formulation has proven elusive.

Math explains how light curving around black holes can reveal multiple images of the same galaxies to observers, according to a new study.

New research on dyslexia points to an unexpected conclusion: Areas of the brain behind reading skill are also involved in math tasks.

If you've ever wondered how to use cookie cutters to minimize wasted dough, you've homed in on a math problem no algorithm can yet handle.