At 6 A.M. or P.M. (it doesn’t matter which), a clock’s minute hand and hour hand point in opposite directions, forming a straight line across the clockface. When is the next time this will happen?

A few days into the new semester this January, the LaSalle Parish school district in rural Louisiana made a pronouncement: No more homework. Since then, none of the 2,500 students in this district — ...

Little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s. Now, researchers have found the answer to r(4,t), a longstanding Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for decades.

The Los Angeles Unified School District unanimously voted to curb classroom screen time, directing staff to develop a policy by June ahead of the upcoming school year. The resolution aims to set clear ...

Many years ago, when War raged and Herbert Hoover fed the Belgians, Manhattan reporters found on the passenger list of an incoming steamer the name Herbert W. Hoover. They quivered. Here was the great ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it ...

We spend a lot of time thinking about the difficult people in our lives—the friend who can't take feedback, the partner who always has to be right, the coworker who turns everything into a fight. But ...

Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT ...

The Dallas Cowboys cooked in the 2026 NFL Draft, as they added prospects with serious potential to start in Day 3. And of course, they walked away with one of the best players in the class. The Dallas ...