I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard parents say, “She’s just not a maths person”. We don’t say, “He’s not a reading ...

As a physics major, I didn’t have much experience with electronics,” said Spinola Castro. “However, over the course of the summer I realized how much I really liked building these things and ...

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find ...

Synchronization abounds in nature: from the flashing lights of fireflies to the movement of fish wriggling through the ocean, ...

A question that has vexed physicists for the past century may finally have a solution – but perhaps not the one everyone was ...

After 27 years, Berkeley Math Circle has shut down its flagship program, BMC-Upper, due to “stringent” new campus background ...

AIP’s William F. and Edith R. Meggers Project Award is a biennial recognition of projects with the goal of improving high ...

Dylan Gage, a second-year student double majoring in physics and mathematics, is now a Goldwater Scholar. The Barry Goldwater Scholarship Program is “one of the oldest and most prestigious ...

When confronted with low literacy rates, no one has ever given the excuse that some people just aren’t cut out to read. And yet we hear that excuse — “I’m just not a math person” — over and over when ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college in the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News is introducing ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...