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In a recent study, mathematicians from Freie Universität Berlin have demonstrated that planar tiling, or tessellation, is much more than a way to create a pretty pattern. Consisting of a surface ...

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 ...

Believe it or not, highway numbers actually make sense. Here's the logic behind odd and even routes, and why the system isn't ...

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 ...

Vaccine mandates and “lack of transparency” about safety have led to plummeting trust in public health around the world that can only be solved with a “long overdue apology”, a new paper argues.

Chess, card games, and pickleball are just some of the games that can help keep your brain healthy and stimulated. Brain health is a vital part of overall well-being as we age. Research suggests the ...

Despite recently closing hundreds of bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States still maintains nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad—from giant “Little ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of ...

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On Monday afternoon, OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman took to Twitter to announce ... well, something, anyway, about the direction of the ChatGPT product: We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make ...

Given every two years to a sample of America’s children, the National Assessment of Educational Progress is considered one of ...