I call them problems because of the puzzle’s title, “Word Problems,” and because each theme clue is written as a mathematical equation, with words instead of numbers. Each solves to an ...

Welcome to 2025! A lovely year, filled with excellent things. Obviously, we’re not talking about the state of the planet – that’s pretty terrible, all things considered. But the math? That i ...

The year’s biggest computer science stories included a new understanding of large language models, and a breakthrough in being able to compute complex quantum systems. We look back at three of the ...