May is almost here, bringing warmer weather and various holidays, such as Mother's Day, Memorial Day and Cinco de Mayo. While Cinco de Mayo is the most popular reason to celebrate May 5, this year, ...

A computer made from strands of DNA in a test tube can calculate the square root of numbers up to 900. Chunlei Guo at the University of Rochester in New York state and colleagues developed a computer ...

Today is Cinco de Mayo. And this year, the fifth of May is filled with mathematical joy. It is — Square Root Day! It all started in 1981. "I was writing a check in late August," says Ron Gordon, who ...

Indians are gearing up to celebrate Square Root Day on May 5th, a rare occurrence where the day and month are square roots of the year's last two digits. American schoolteacher Ron Gordon, who created ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...