A humorous everyday moment showing creative problem solving that feels surprisingly effective and instantly relatable.

The biggest competition in college basketball is back. In 2026, it will be easier than ever to place a bet on March Madness, prompting warnings from mental health experts about the risks of problem ...

When a startup struggles, founders usually assume the solution is obvious: more marketing, more hiring, or more capital. But in my experience advising founders, the real issue is usually something ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

In a dark room, in the middle of the night, a woman lies dreaming. Suddenly, her eyes beneath their lids dart crisply left-right, left-right. The eye signal means she knows she’s dreaming. Lucid ...

ST. THOMAS — Students faced off in fierce, but friendly, competition at the St. Thomas-St. John District MathCounts event Tuesday at the University of the Virgin Islands Innovation Center. Students ...

Spring break is just around the corner in North Texas, and if you're a parent looking for fun ways to entertain the kids while they're out of school, look no further. Across Dallas-Fort Worth, there ...

Your brain could be gently coaxed into working on complex problems while you sleep, making you better able to tackle them the next day. Now, Karen Konkoly at Northwestern University in Illinois and ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Monday evening and for the third time in two days plows piled snow against cars on the 100 block of Franklin St. We trudged them out and then those employees from Public Works moved snow back. A check ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...