The previous essay showed that in the 1400s, Africa was not a “dark continent” but a continent of light — a leader in knowledge, trade, and culture. Cities like Timbuktu rivaled Oxford and Cambridge ...

No one in her house owns a smartphone, and there are no functional computers in the school. So when the 12-year-old became ...

Where every known method of divination seemed to fail, a group of researchers at Bocconi University in Milan found a hint in ...

In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is ...

“I do not call my art ‘mathematical art,’” Dr. Roelofs said in a video interview about a week later. “It’s art about mathematics. Every artist has a favorite subject, things you want to talk about.

In an approach reminiscent of the classic board game "Battleship," Stanford researchers have discovered a way to characterize ...

Scotland somehow emerge from a bizarre World Cup qualifier with another victory on a remarkable night at Hampden, writes Tom English.

The focus on Indian knowledge systems in the UGC’s proposed mathematics curriculum is better suited to other disciplines such ...

On Oct. 8, 1873, Ejnar Hertzsprung was born near Copenhagen, Denmark. His father had studied astronomy and worked in finance, and Hertzsprung himself showed interest in astronomy and math, but pursued ...

Sometime in late 1780s, a math teacher in an elementary school in Brunswick, Germany, asked his students to add up the ...

The Indian Knowledge System division is hosting competitions for students to recreate ancient astronomical instruments and produce educational videos on agriculture and mathematics.

The finding offers tantalizing clues in the ongoing quest to piece together the origins of ORCs—mysterious, ring-shaped radio ...