The Constitution Review Committee has proposed a limit on the size of the Supreme Court, recommending that the Chief Justice and no more than 14 other justices should sit on the country’s highest ...

In the desert of New Mexico, under wide open skies, the US Border Patrol is bulking up. A record number of recruits, many Latino, Spanish-speaking, and from border towns they know well, are heading to ...

Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before numbers were written down. By closely studying Halafian pottery, researchers ...

Cédric Villani is one of France's top mathematicians, working across several fields of the discipline. He's won a number of titles and awards for his work. A professor at Claude Bernard Lyon 1 ...

Abstract: In this article, the Kalman filter design problem is investigated for linear discrete-time systems under binary encoding schemes. Under such a scheme, the local information is quantized into ...

Most people assume democracy can be made perfectly fair with the right voting rules but mathematics says otherwise. Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem proves that no voting system can satisfy all fairness ...

Kids in elementary school learn—or are supposed to learn—how to add fractions and round numbers. But many students at the University of California, San Diego—a top public university ranked sixth ...

A new bill that would double the number of controversial H-1B visas issued to people emigrating to the U.S. has been reintroduced to Congress. Democratic Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois ...

(ABC 6 News) — A Ramsey County District Court judge has denied a request to allow enforcement of a binary triggers ban to continue while the law undergoes the appeal process. The ban on these types of ...

A sharp rise in students entering the University of California system without middle school-level math skills is raising alarms among educators. A new internal report from the University of California ...