WASHINGTON — The annual National Christmas Tree Lighting returns to The Ellipse near the White House Thursday night, marking 102 years since a national tree first stood in the heart of Washington, D.C ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

Vice President Kamala Harris delivered the closing argument of her campaign against Donald Trump on Tuesday, arguing that as president she would focus on delivering for everyday Americans while he ...

An ellipse is one of four conic sections, i.e. instruments of anguish in math classes. The ellipse obeys the equation: (x/a) ² + ( y/b) ² = 1. In this specific case a = 40, while b = 30. An ellipse is ...

For its 50th anniversary in 2025, Oakley has released the “Oakley Ellipse” sunglasses The eyewear is the brand’s iconic elliptical “O” logo It features Physiomorphic Geometry for a close fit, Prizm ...

For some high school students, statistics and other data science courses have unseated calculus as the de facto option for pursuing advanced math, in part due to targeted state efforts to expand ...

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known for less ...

Ice moons such as Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus are currently at the forefront of the search for extraterrestrial life, as it is believed that beneath their thick icy shells there are vast ...

Hula hooping is so commonplace that we may overlook some interesting questions it raises: 'What keeps a hula hoop up against gravity?' and 'Are some body types better for hula hooping than others?' A ...

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., came under fire on Sunday after falsely claiming on social media that 50,000 attendees at a colonial elections festival in Puerto Rico were rallying for the ...