Through a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Jenny Quan is exploring the mathematical principles behind Rubik's cubes.

Brain scans show that most of us have a built-in capacity to learn to code, rooted in the brain’s logic and reasoning ...

Findings by Hopkins researchers suggest that all humans are equipped with the foundation needed to learn programming ...

Learning to code doesn’t require new brain systems—it builds on the ones we already use for logic and reasoning.

Computer programming powers modern society and enabled the AI revolution, but little is known about how our brains learn this ...

Computer programming powers modern society and enabled the AI revolution but little is known about how our brains learn this essential skill. To help ...

Parts of the brain are "rewired" when people learn computer programming, according to new research. Scientists watched ...

It took a series of aviation disasters for safety experts to realize the critical role of working memory when pilots and technicians juggle competing tasks. In some cases, technicians made apparently ...

The New York State Education Department is pushing new math guidelines, including a recommendation that teachers stop giving timed quizzes — because it stresses students out. The new guidelines also ...

Simple math equations grow harder when we're out of practice. As time goes on we forget the elementary rules of math and compound problems become more and more challenging. That's why a simple math ...

Tao had a theoretical analysis but needed concrete numbers to check certain inequalities. At first, he asked the AI to write Python code, but ran into issues with runtime and parameter selection. By ...