In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of paper. As the shockwave rolled toward him, he dropped the papers and watched ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver ...

A maths whizz has shared a 'genius' way to solve almost any multiplication sum - and it's so simple even young children can do it with ease. So are you aware of this method?

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Each year, the toughest HSC maths exam ends in a question notorious for its sheer difficulty, often stumping even the state’s best ...

Renowned for setting final questions so difficult even top mathematicians have to pause for thought, this year the script has flipped on the HSC’s most challenging exam. While peers in the standard ...

Cosmology is already a complicated field of study, so switching up the variables is extra rough.

While peers in the standard and advanced maths courses were left “in tears” by their own maths papers, Cherrybrook Technology High School Extension 2 students Aditya Patel, 17, and Xinda Zhar, 18, ...

A simple looking grade-school math problem has stumped the masses. Can you solve it correctly? The simple equation shared by @BholanathDutta on X this week, who regularly posts brainteasers, read ...

A.I. search tools, chatbots and social media are associated with lower cognitive performance, studies say. What to do?