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New Spacecraft Named After Katherine Johnson Honors the Pioneering NASA Mathematician

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New Spacecraft Named After Katherine Johnson Honors the Pioneering NASA Mathematician

How Accurate Are Punxsutawney Phil's Groundhog Day Weather Predictions?

“Smells like snow.”

How Accurate Are Punxsutawney Phil's Groundhog Day Weather Predictions?

Can You Solve This Math Problem From MIT's 1876 Entrance Exam?

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Can You Solve This Math Problem From MIT's 1876 Entrance Exam?

A Simple Way to Figure Out How Many Lights You Need for Your Christmas Tree

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A Simple Way to Figure Out How Many Lights You Need for Your Christmas Tree

How Much Is the Earth Worth?

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What Do the Numbers on Barcodes Mean?

These seemingly random digits can tell you a lot.

Grad Student Solves the Conway Knot, a Math Problem That Has Stumped Experts for 50 Years

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The Reason Apple Doesn’t Include a Calculator With the iPad

The Apple iPad.

15 Riveting Facts About Alan Turing

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Keep Your Brain Engaged With the National Museum of Mathematics’s Weekly “Mind-Benders for the Quarantined” Puzzles

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5 People Who Were Amazingly Productive In Quarantine

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9 Fascinating Facts About Katherine Johnson

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36 Unusual Units of Measurement

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Why Is There a Leap Day?

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100 Things We Learned in 2019

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Science Finds a Better Way to Calculate 'Dog Years'

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