WASHINGTON — The Trump administration says its plan to dismantle the Education Department offers a fix for the nation’s lagging academics — a solution that could free schools…
Read more Trump’s wind-down of the Education Department leaves schools fearing disruptionIn 2011, Deconinck and Oliveras simulated different disturbances with higher and higher frequencies and watched what happened to the Stokes waves. As they expected, for disturbances above a…
Read more The Hidden Math of Ocean WavesThe duo kept their program running in the background for over a decade. During that time, a couple of computers from their ragtag collection succumbed to overheating and…
Read more Unpicking How to Measure the Complexity of KnotsWASHINGTON (AP) — The economic boom promised by President Donald Trump centers on a single number: $17 trillion. That’s the sum of new investments that Trump claims to…
Read more Trump says the US has secured $17 trillion in new investments. The real number is likely much lessWASHINGTON — WASHINGTON (AP) — The economic boom promised by President Donald Trump centers on a single number: $17 trillion. That’s the sum of new investments that Trump…
Read more Trump says US has secured $17T in new investments. The number is likely much less.Across the country, parents are discovering that what their children bring home from school looks very little like what they once learned. It isn’t just math — reading…
Read more Parents Are Freaking Out Over These New Teaching Styles — And Experts Have ThoughtsIRVING, Texas — Crowded around a workshop table, four girls at de Zavala Middle School puzzled over a Lego machine they had built. As they flashed a purple…
Read more Girls fell behind boys in math during the pandemicSeveral years before ChatGPT began jibber-jabbering away, Google developed a very different kind of artificial intelligence program called AlphaGo that learned to play the board game Go with…
Read more Google DeepMind’s Game-Playing AI Tackles a Chatbot Blind SpotBETHLEHEM, Pennsylvania (WPVI) — With 50 years of teaching experience, coach Don Davis led the Lehigh Valley Math Team to a victory at the 2024 American Regions Mathematics…
Read more 50-year teacher & Lehigh Valley Math Team score championship victoryFormer Gloucester resident Peter Van Ness’s debut novel, a tech thriller called “The Faithful” has arrived, and it is very ambitious indeed. Van Ness, who now lives in…
Read more Peter Van Ness writes a new life chapterBEVERLY — The Beverly Public Library has announced the winners of the 28th annual Teen Poetry Contest. Winners in the Middle School Division were Sydney Brown, first place for…
Read more Beverly library announces teen poetry contest winnersMETHUEN — In the wake of ongoing issues with Steward Health Care System, the U.S. House of Representatives is looking to pass a bill to provide additional funding…
Read more Trahan pushing to protect nonprofit hospitalsNewswise — Certain populations of mosquitoes are more heat tolerant and better equipped to survive heat waves than others, according to new research from Washington University in St.…
Read more Some mosquitoes like it hotNewswise — Natural selection acts on phenotypes constructed over development, which raises the question of how development affects evolution. Classic evolutionary theory indicates that development affects evolution by…
Read more Mathematical framework for evolutionary developmental dynamics (evo-devo).By John Roach Newswise — In the computer vision field of object detection, deep learning models are trained to identify objects of interest within an image of a…
Read more Topology, Algebra, and Geometry Give Math Respect in Data ScienceCNN — Majority Leader Steve Scalise is scrambling to lock down the votes to become the next House speaker, but protracted opposition to the Louisiana Republican inside the…
Read more Scalise faces a key math problem as he struggles to collect 217 votes for speaker | CNN PoliticsBYLINE: Molly Blancett Newswise — University of Oregon researchers have developed research-based programs to identify students who struggle with numbers in kindergarten, provide support at the whole-class level…
Read more New tools for teachers to address math learning lossNewswise — CLEVELAND–Life’s random rhythms surround us–from the hypnotic, synchronized blinking of fireflies…to the back-and-forth motion of a child’s swing… to slight variations in the otherwise steady lub-dub…
Read more Making sense of life’s random rhythmsNewswise — An international collaboration between researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan, the University of Tokyo, and University College London has demonstrated that…
Read more Free energy principle predicts self-organized learning in neuronsNewswise — ITHACA, N.Y. — With artificial intelligence poised to assist in profound scientific discoveries that will change the world, Cornell is leading a new $11.3 million center focused…
Read more New center merges math, AI to push frontiers of science
