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A 72 percent reduction in federal funding is devastating to math research. The American Mathematical Society is offering $1 ...

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New data from 2.5M students shows boys and girls start out equal in math. So why does a gender gap emerge just months after ...

As a mild-mannered statistics professor, it's not often that I get contacted directly by the CEO of a multi-million-dollar ...

Forget about that future career, because your only job now is to avoid being mauled by zombies. As humanity clings to its ...