Marco Rubio doesn't know how old the Earth is. Maybe he and his GOP pals need this refresher on the Big Bang

Recluse, maverick physicist and Mathematica developer Stephen Wolfram claims to have revolutionized science with his new, computer-based theories.

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In “The Math of Life and Death,” Kit Yates shows how mathematics is crucial to understanding everything we do

On his proto-blog archive, the words and spirit of the late computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra live on, inspiring new generations of geeks.

Should children use graphing calculators? Studies show positive outcomes on learning

Partisan gerrymandering poses a burgeoning threat to the American way of democracy

How to beat the market! Readers respond to Andrew Leonard's "Warren Buffett's Revenge."

A new book rescues one of the 20th century's greatest minds from the postmodern relativists who have claimed him -- and his pal Einstein -- as their own.

Economic models of climate change are so riddled with flaws and fudge factors that we’d be better off without them

A poet-mathematician offers an empowering and entertaining primer for the age of Big Data

I tallied how often women were cited in Wikipedia’s top math and literature pages. The results weren’t pretty

Computing's philosopher king argues for elegance in programming -- and a Pulitzer Prize for the best written.

The hospitals and health care facilities that rely on H-1B visa holders could be effected under new Trump order.