Everyone has encountered maths, from primary to secondary school, where—in theory—maths ends. The hard truth is that math follows you and haunts you throughout life.

Researchers have demonstrated, using a novel approach, that the original solution to Dudeney’s famous dissection problem is indeed the optimal one. In 1907, English author and mathematician Henry Erne ...

Scientists took 10 years to figure out how one type of superbug gains its ability to infect diverse bacterial species. When ...