Math Puzzles News
June 3, 2025
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May 1, 2025 — A mathematician has built an algebraic solution to an equation that was once believed impossible to ...
Apr. 21, 2025 — Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...
Mar. 10, 2025 — Researchers have developed an AI-based learning system that recognizes strengths and weaknesses in mathematics by tracking eye movements with a webcam to generate problem-solving hints. This enables teachers to provide significantly more children ...
Feb. 19, 2025 — A new study of more than 1400 adults who gamble and play online video games has found loot box buying is associated with real-world gambling, video gaming addiction, and other mental health issues. ...
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May 15, 2025 — In Project Chimera, a game lab combines a VR computer game with educational problems in order to convey scientific content in a motivating ...
Jan. 30, 2025 — Researchers developed a new optical system that uses holograms to encode information, creating a level of encryption that traditional methods cannot ...
Dec. 16, 2024 — People who started playing video games at an early school age developed problematic gaming more quickly compared to those who started playing a few years ...
Dec. 9, 2024 — Researchers found that adolescents with more symptoms of gaming addiction showed lower brain activity in the region involved in decision-making and reward processing; this blunted response to reward ...
Dec. 3, 2024 — New research reveals the unique human ability to conceptualize numbers may be rooted deep within the ...
Nov. 27, 2024 — A team of physics educators is focusing on a new approach to teaching quantum physics in schools. Traditional classroom teaching has tended to focus on presenting the history of the origins of ...
Nov. 18, 2024 — It turns out gaming is good for you! New research indicates massive multiplayer online gamers learn by gaming and their skills in the workplace are enriched by those seemingly endless hours ...
Oct. 9, 2024 — A professor who has devoted his career to resolving the mysteries of higher mathematics has solved two separate, fundamental problems that have perplexed mathematicians for ...
Sep. 24, 2024 — Despite its importance for mathematics, the neuronal basis of the number zero in the human brain was previously unknown. Researchers discovered that individual nerve cells in the medial temporal lobe ...
Sep. 20, 2024 — A single treatment session, which includes the video game Tetris, can reduce symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This has been shown in a new study carried out with healthcare ...
Earlier Headlines
Sep. 12, 2024 — Could invisibility cloaks become a reality? New research brings this science fiction concept a step closer, with a breakthrough software package that simulates how waves interact with complex ...
Sep. 12, 2024 — Several fields of mathematics have developed in total isolation, using their own 'undecipherable' coded languages. Mathematicians now present 'big algebras,' a two-way ...
Aug. 27, 2024 — A new study on the causal relationship between video gaming and mental well-being challenges commonly held views about the effects of ...
Aug. 23, 2024 — Building on a landmark algorithm, researchers propose a way to make a smaller and more noise-tolerant quantum factoring circuit for ...
July 1, 2024 — Researchers have come up with exciting and sophisticated new mapping technology enabling future generations to get involved in creating their own future built landscape. They say that planners are ...
June 10, 2024 — Boys are good at math, girls not so much? A study has analyzed the social mechanisms that contribute to the gender gap in math confidence. While peer comparisons seem to play a crucial role for boys, ...
Apr. 23, 2024 — Video gamers who exploit glitches in games can help experts better understand buggy software, students ...
Apr. 2, 2024 — Little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s. Now, researchers have found the answer to r(4,t), a longstanding Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for ...
Mar. 18, 2024 — The traveling salesman problem is considered a prime example of a combinatorial optimization problem. Now a team has shown that a certain class of such problems can actually be solved better and much ...
Mar. 13, 2024 — Through steady advances in the development of quantum computers and their ever-improving performance, it will be possible in the future to crack our current encryption processes. To address this ...
Feb. 1, 2024 — The springtime emergence of vast swarms of cicadas can be explained by a mathematical model of collective decision-making with similarities to models describing stock market ...
Dec. 20, 2023 — At-risk individuals, such as those with known gaming and gambling problems, are more likely to engage with loot boxes than those without. The study is the result of one of the largest, most complex ...
Nov. 14, 2023 — Distributed cloud storage is a hot topic for security researchers, and a team is now merging quantum physics with mature cryptography and storage techniques to achieve a cost-effective cloud storage ...
Oct. 27, 2023 — The privacy policies and practices of online games contain dark design patterns which could be deceptive, misleading, or coercive to users, according to a new ...
Sep. 25, 2023 — New research has used machine learning to find the properties of atomic pieces of geometry, in pioneering work that could drive the development of new results in ...
Sep. 4, 2023 — Digital information exchange can be safer, cheaper and more environmentally friendly with the help of a new type of random number generator for encryption. The researchers behind the study believe ...
Aug. 10, 2023 — Legal restrictions placed on the amount of time young people in China can play video games may be less effective than originally thought, a new study has ...
Aug. 3, 2023 — In prehistoric societies, humans tended to learn from members of our ingroup or from more prestigious individuals, as this information was more likely to be reliable and result in group success. ...
Aug. 1, 2023 — An interdisciplinary team of mathematicians, engineers, physicists, and medical scientists has uncovered an unexpected link between pure mathematics and genetics, that reveals key insights into the ...
July 7, 2023 — Board games based on numbers, like Monopoly, Othello and Chutes and Ladders, make young children better at math, according to a comprehensive review of research published on the topic over the last ...
Thursday, September 12, 2024
- Invisibility Cloaks? Wave Scattering Simulation Unlocks Potential for Advanced Metamaterials
- Big Algebras: A Dictionary of Abstract Math