PORT EDWARDS — Programming robots is not the traditional way for students to learn arithmetic, but that's exactly how a Port Edwards class is learning new math concepts. Port Edwards Elementary School ...

A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem. Getting there meant doing away with traditional approaches. In May of 1694, in a lecture hall at ...

Mathematicians like to generalize concepts into higher dimensions. Sometimes this is easy. If you want to efficiently pack squares in two dimensions, you arrange them like a checkerboard. To squeeze ...

A little person hurls orange-like bullets at the wall, at the ceiling, at the floor. The bullet-y fruit doesn't explode, it doesn't kill, it doesn't destroy. As it ricochets from surface to surface, ...