At Battle High School in Columbia, Mo., students in geometry class have swapped their compasses and protractors for hammers and hard hats. And they’re doing it for a good cause. The school is one of a ...

Like cosmic lighthouses sweeping the universe with bursts of energy, pulsars have fascinated and baffled astronomers since they were first discovered 50 years ago. In two studies, international teams ...

Those of you whose math careers peaked in geometry—with reliable theorems offered a degree of predictability in an otherwise uncertain teenage world—might find a new show of strangely animate and hard ...

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