One afternoon earlier this year, my 11-year-old son was sitting at his laptop and working quietly on his math homework. At ...

Warren Buffett says living in America, his “lucky genes” and the power of compound interest shaped his success. Here’s what ...

For most of human history, the idea that work should be “fun” would have seemed, at best, absurd and, at worst, offensive. Consider a Roman galley slave chained to an oar, or a medieval serf bound to ...

Federal survey data suggests that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been steadily declining for the past decade. Credit: Stanislaw ...

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

A mystery drug has shown promise for Parkinson’s disease, improving the mobility and balance of mice with Parkinson’s-like symptoms. The drug works by boosting the brain’s waste disposal system to ...

In ancient Greece, Euclid showed that if you agree on a small list of preliminary principles, or axioms, you can use deductive reasoning to reveal all sorts of new mathematical truths. But although ...

Americans eager for lower borrowing costs may have a long wait ahead of them. The Iran war is complicating the picture for the Federal Reserve, which is set to meet on March 18 for its next interest ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi claimed on Sunday, on “Face the Nation,” that President Trump launched attacks against Iran “because it is fun,” accusing the United States of starting what he ...

Major airlines and millions of travelers across the United States face a rare convergence of challenges this spring that together are making it both costlier and less convenient to fly. Subscribe to ...

Trump delivered the line in a joking tone, suggesting he may not have intended it to be taken literally. In March 2026, a number of social media posts shared a clip of U.S. President Donald Trump ...