Once upon a time, mathematicians imagined their job was to discover new mathematics and then let others explain it. Today, digital tools like 3-D printing, animation and virtual reality are more ...

A new artificical intelligence system is able to create algorithms better and more powerful than humans have imagined, its creators say. DeepMind, the Google sister company that has brought a number ...

Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to add, starting with ...