Four simple strategies—beginning with an image, previewing vocabulary, omitting the numbers, and offering number sets—can have a big impact on learning.

Remember seeing your triglyceride levels in your lab report? Ah! Fats you may dismiss, thinking of the next gym work you need to head to. Fatty acids are broken down via a process called β-oxidation.

Some math problems are designed in ways that reward simplicity rather than analytical depth. Research shows that highly intelligent individuals are more likely to overthink these problems, leading to ...

The Vision is starting to have an image problem. WWE’s top faction looked its weakest and most helpless yet as they were unable to help Bron Breakker pry the World Heavyweight championship away from ...

Google's artificial intelligence (AI) image generator is causing concern due to the hyper-realistic nature of the content it is able to output. Referred to as Nano Banana, or Nano Banana Pro for the ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

Hannah Cairo is in the first year of her mathematics graduate program at the University of Maryland. Like her peers, she does research and is a TA on campus. But unlike most Ph.D. students, Cairo is ...

Few locales match the romantic air of The City of Lights, but at Christmastime, Paris can be even more magical. That's certainly the case in Netflix's upcoming romantic comedy, Champagne Problems, set ...

In the third century BCE, Apollonius of Perga asked how many circles one could draw that would touch three given circles at exactly one point each. It would take 1,800 years to prove the answer: eight ...

Professor Curtis T. McMullen received the 1998 Fields Medal, deemed the most prestigious award in mathematics, for his work on complex dynamics. McMullen is also the creator of the Illustrating ...

So now it’s the duty of writers and television producers to develop programs to “sell” the city like some P.R. firm? (“David Simon bears blame for Baltimore’s image troubles,” Sept. 10) This is like ...