At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s their favorite food? Answers came in English and Spanish—“todo” (everything), ...

There's something orbiting the sun, way, way beyond the distant realm of Pluto. A team of astronomers recently spotted the farthest-known object in the solar system using a telescope atop Hawaii's ...

Math teacher Al Rabanera has a new tool in his decades-long quest to ensure his students, most of whom come from low-income families and marginalized backgrounds, see themselves in the curriculum.

Mathematicians spend most of their time thinking about what’s knowable. But the unknowable can be just as compelling. Perhaps the most famous example comes from a theorem by the logician Kurt Gödel.

If you've ever taken an introductory astronomy class, you've probably seen the Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram. This graph maps out the life cycle of stars by plotting their temperature against their ...

There’s a fresh twist in the mystery of the “little red dots.” Astronomers say they’ve found a new specimen, which they’re calling an “X-ray dot,” that suggests these crimson specks are a type of ...

The drops go beyond the pandemic and cut across income, geographic and racial divides, new data shows. By Claire Cain Miller Francesca Paris and Sarah Mervosh Something troubling is happening in U.S.

Documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell spoke with NBC News' Gadi Schwartz about a new video of an unidentified tic tac object possibly recorded by a Navy ship near the ...

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