The secret beauty in apples, stars and the center of you. In the world of taxicab geometry, even the Pythagorean theorem takes a back seat. Trying to fit it all in? There’s a trick to it, even in 24 ...

In 1979, Hounsfield won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his role in the development of computer-assisted tomography. He shared it with Allan Cormack, a physicist who had worked out the ...

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For her 6th grade honors class, math teacher Ana Sepúlveda wanted to make geometry fun. She figured her students “who live ...

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Since Coleman (1966), many have questioned whether school spending affects student outcomes. The school finance reforms that began in the early 1970s and accelerated in the 1980s caused some of the ...

“The answer would be 42.5, though, if done at an age appropriate grade." [h/t: Pop Sugar] A version of this story originally ran in 2018; it has been updated for 2022.