Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

Math gender bias shows up in kids as young as 5, not only in how they view themselves, but in their response to adults ...

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New research shows that advances in technology could help make future supercomputers far more energy efficient. Neuromorphic computers are modeled after the structure of the human brain, and researche ...

Our brains combine complicated observations from our surroundings into a simple assessment of situation. Washington: We may find it difficult to calculate complicated probabilities, but the brain ...

While they seem to wander leisurely from flower to flower foraging for pollen, bees are actually solving complex mathematical problems that take computers days to computer, studies found. Researchers ...