Logic tests are often designed to twist our brains into seeing new ways of solving a problem, and this viral math equation circulating online is no exception. It has asked participants to "think ...

Weather models get a lot of screen time during hurricane season- in fact you probably know a few by name! Different models come up with different tracks- but why? To do that, I have to explain how a ...

MIT researcher Ramin Hasani solved the computation-intensive differential equation, which enables an algorithm system that can adapt to evolving patterns. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Polynomials were first conceived by the Babylonians around 1800 BCE. Babylonians first conceived of two-degree polynomials around ...

Brendan is a freelance writer and content creator from Portland, OR. He covers tech and gaming for Lifehacker, and has also written for Digital Trends, EGM, Business Insider, IGN, and more. A new ...

XAuth, the supposed competitor to Facebook Connect that made headlines yesterday, turns out to be less a competitor and more powerful than anyone realized. We spoke to one of its key creators, Seth ...

An equation is a mathematical statement showing that two expressions are equal. The two expressions are linked with an equals symbol (=). The unknown variable (often the letter \(x\)) can take any ...

It began not with a word, but a bang. That statement is as ambiguous as any in the Bible. The Psalms are confident about what happened; the universe was the work of the Lord: ‘Of old hast thou laid ...