A multinational team has cracked a long-standing barrier to reliable quantum computing by inventing an algorithm that lets ordinary computers faithfully mimic a fault-tolerant quantum circuit built on ...

Each year, millions of students risk losing ground to the “summer slide”—a preventable drop in academic progress.

While the study focused on healthy university students, similar benefits have been observed in children with math learning ...

The study suggests that targeted brain stimulation could help bridge this gap. Academic learning has profound implications ...

A new series for the Health and Science section aims to make complex topics easy to dissect, and maybe even help people ‘fall ...

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Mathematicians soon hypothesized that as your set gets bigger, the biggest sum-free subsets will get much larger than N /3.

US students rank poorly in global math scores—outdated instruction is to blame. To prepare students for increasing complex ...

With the help of powerful computers, researchers discovered a four-sided shape that naturally rests on one side, and built a ...

A collaborative team from Penn Medicine and Penn Engineering has uncovered the mathematical principles behind a ...

A collaborative team from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Perelman School of Medicine have unraveled ...