In mid-November 2025, a rumor spread on X that New York City's Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani would be introducing "Arabic numerals" to schools in the city. One post from the account of the prediction ...

Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

It all started one summer lunchtime in 1992 on the terrace outside the CERN cafeteria. If you had happened to be there at the physics research lab near Geneva at the time, you might have overheard ...

JERUSALEM — Numbers alone cannot capture the toll the Israel-Hamas war has taken on the Gaza Strip. But they can help us understand how thoroughly the conflict has upended the lives of 2.1 million ...

This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is in crisis, call or text 988, or go to 988lifeline.org, to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. You can also call the network, previously ...

Polls from “select pollsters” meet certain criteria for reliability and are shown with a diamond. Caroline SolerPolling researcher Going into election night, Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic ...

Magic numbers are therefore simply the numbers of particles required to fill each of these nuclear shells, with separate levels for protons and neutrons. Individual isotopes can correspondingly be ...

As someone who writes about the AI industry relatively frequently for this site, there is one question that I find myself constantly asking and being asked in turn, in some form or another: What do ...

The Detroit Tigers have a big home series coming up against the Cleveland Guardians, but first they'll have the day off on Monday, Sept. 15. The Tigers are hosting the Guardians in a three-game series ...

Note: This column contains spoilers from the documentary "Unknown Number: The High School Catfish," references to cursing and sexual activity, and examples of bullying. Imagine being a teenage girl ...