Joe Sikoscow ’06, a portfolio manager and a benefactor of the MIT Introduction to Technology, Engineering, and Science (MITES ...

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The 2026 ACS president will spend the society's 150th anniversary focusing on growing ACS's platform and engaging its members ...

Stewart Cheifet, the television producer and host who documented the personal computer revolution for nearly two decades on ...

A Computer Science student has complained about the heavy focus on mathematics in his programme, stating that over 70% of coursework is math, not coding.

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

You’d be surprised how many young people can’t read this. One of its conclusions tells the sad tale. “Between 2020 and 2025, the number of students whose math skills fall below high school level has ...

Is there an infinity of infinities? The question sounds almost absurd, like a child’s riddle meant to twist your brain into knots. But for mathematicians, it’s a serious (and endlessly fascinating) ...

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Researchers have successfully used a quantum algorithm to solve a complex century-old mathematical problem long considered impossible for even the most powerful conventional supercomputers. The ...