COLUMBIA, S.C. — If your child's math homework has you scratching your head confused, you're not alone. Parents who grew up in the '80s, and '90s learned basic formulas, such as long division to solve ...

Cody Cottier is a freelance journalist for Discover Magazine, who frequently covers new scientific studies about animal behavior, human evolution, consciousness, astrophysics, and the environment.

Research shows smart study beats long study for math formulas. Retrieval practice and spaced repetition are key. Quizzing helps more than re-reading. Spacing out reviews improves retention. Mixing ...

TeX is a typesetting standard that, among other things, allows you to typeset complex math formulas. One flavor of Tex is LaTeX, for which LaTeXiT serves as a front-end for on Mac OS X. Using LaTeXiT, ...

If you zoomed in on this picture, you could make out thousands of interconnected ellipses. Mathematical artist Hamid Naderi Yeganeh created them using a series of formulas that he devised and ...