Across the country, educators continue to wrestle with big questions about math curricula. Two years ago, the California education board’s adoption of a long-gestating new math framework added more ...

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The US trade deficit dropped to $59.6 billion in August, falling nearly 24% from the month before, according to data published by the Commerce Department on Wednesday. The drop followed a fresh wave ...

Spotify definitely wants you to only use Spotify for streaming music, but it’s willing to admit that you might have used another service in the past. Those people can now more easily import their ...

Time travel is deterministic and locally free, a paper says—resolving an age-old paradox. This follows research observing that the present is not changed by a time-traveling qubit. It’s still not very ...

Pure mathematics uses mathematics to explore abstract ideas, mathematics that does not necessarily describe a real physical system. This can include developing the fundamental tools used by ...

Knowledge gained by combining measurements and simulations leads to increased confidence in the safety of products, as Louise Wright explains.