May is almost here, bringing warmer weather and various holidays, such as Mother's Day, Memorial Day and Cinco de Mayo. While Cinco de Mayo is the most popular reason to celebrate May 5, this year, ...

In the 36 years since its creation, Pi Day has become a widely celebrated holiday, one that is not just for math nerds or those with a sweet tooth. The holiday always falls on March 14, but retired ...

A new DNA computer calculates square roots of perfect squares up to 900. Like quantum computers, DNA computers are an exciting frontier of post-silicon computing. Where previous examples were up to 4 ...

The ancient Greeks wanted to believe that the universe could be described in its entirety using only whole numbers and the ratios between them — fractions, or what we now call rational numbers. But ...