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

Imagine that your focused mind is like your right hand, and your unfocused mind is like your left. You'll get more done by using both. And it lightens cognitive load. Using only focused effort is like ...

Artificial intelligence systems may be good at generating text, recognizing images, and even solving basic math problems—but when it comes to advanced mathematical reasoning, they are hitting a wall.

Mathematicians rely on numbers, but finding words to explain different levels of certainty has stymied everyone from the ...

We meet a solutions architect who tells us that his defining characteristic is curiosity, and that for him success is in solving problems with technology, for people. In a recent episode of the First ...