This Valentine Sudoku looked cute at first. Then I realized something was missing the numbers. Can you even solve Sudoku ...

Sudoku is a beautiful game. An 81-square puzzle split into three-by-three boxes of nine. Symmetry, numbers, beauty.  Last semester, I was deeply obsessed with the New York Times sudoku puzzles. After ...

A specific type of mental exercise could buy you more time, according to new long-term data.

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At the St. Cloud Flea Market in St. Cloud, Minnesota, that same forty bucks can fill your entire backseat with treasures, which is either a testament to the incredible deals or a commentary on how ...

Marjorie Albright passed away Jan. 28 at age 108. The painter, golfer, bridge player and devoted community volunteer is remembered as being curious, resourceful and joyful. She studied astronomy at ...

Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

Since ancient Greece, researchers have tried to isolate special rational points on curves. Now they have the first ever formula that applies uniformly to all curves ...

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One ball on a Plinko board is unpredictable. Drop a thousand and they form a near-perfect bell curve—one of math’s most powerful ideas for 150+ years.