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During this year’s Super Bowl, boxer Mike Tyson took a big bite out of an apple in a commercial that commanded us to “ eat ...

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Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Working in secret for more than two years, a group of mathematicians has set out to resolve of the longest and most bitter ...

The AP released its All-American team on Tuesday, and headlining the list was Duke star Cameron Boozer. The presumptive Naismith Player of the Year favorite was the only player who earned unanimous ...

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Middle school teachers are now forced to assume multiplicative thinking is secure so they can dive into ratios and algebra.

The optimistic space-race drama, starting its fifth season, imagines humans settling space without tech colonizing our minds. By James Poniewozik James Poniewozik is the chief television critic of The ...

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