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Researchers found that some animals could “count” carrots in a test—and may have better numerical skills than dogs or horses.

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Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain of legacy PDF generation in regulated banking and manufacturing. He explains how transitioning from resource-heavy engines like Puppeteer and LaTeX to a ...

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Some Anne Arundel County middle schoolers will spend more time in math class next academic year amid a pilot program. The initiative will launch at Arundel, Corkran and Wiley H. Bates middle schools, ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

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Let’s start with what’s probably the most tired, overused joke in math: A topologist is someone who can’t tell a coffee cup from a doughnut. Both, you see, have a hole in them. Topology is usually ...

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In early April, NASA and its Artemis II mission inspired humanity to look toward the heavens. Now that the four-person space crew has returned home, however, the public still hasn't had its fill of ...