Palmerton Area High School is proposing several additions to its program of studies for the next academic year, expanding course offerings in business, mathematics, music, and technology. The changes ...

When you swing a tennis racket or catch a set of keys, you aren’t thinking about wind resistance or gravity. Yet, to perform that motion, your brain is solving a massive physics problem in ...

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

Is 170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727 prime? Before you ask the Internet for an answer, can you consider how you might answer that question without a ...

In the last couple of years a pressing question has started to permeate the mathematical community: how will mathematicians’ jobs coexist harmoniously with AI as it gets progressively better at ...

Noah Giansiracusa joins ThinkersOne's Six Pixels of Separation to discuss how users can reclaim control over their tech-mediated lives by garnering a stronger understanding of how algorithms work, and ...

The number of girls choosing to take a GCSE in computer science fell this year, breaking a consistent growth streak. In 2025, the number of girls taking computing at GCSE level dropped to 20,708, down ...

You open YouTube Shorts while waiting for your coffee. A couple of videos, you think. Thirty minutes later, you're still scrolling. The brain is buzzing, time is gone. YouTube Shorts isn't just a ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

How do the algorithms that populate our social media feeds actually work? In a piece for Time Magazine excerpted from his recent book Robin Hood Math, Noah Giansiracusa sheds light on the algorithms ...

YouTube Shorts, the shortform platform from Google-owned video giant YouTube, has seen massive success since its launch in September 2020. Today, an estimated 1% of all waking human hours are spent ...

Explore our campus, meet lecturers and current students, and learn more about what it's like to study at Manchester. We place social responsibility at the heart of your learning which means you can ...