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Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...

Checkerboard your lawn by mowing it one way and then going over those lines in the other direction. Keep your mower blades ...

A pixel either controls or analyzes, but not at the same time. Researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland, however, managed to create a new type of pixel that can simultaneously do both. This ...

The major veins of Chinese money plant leaves form what's called a Voronoi diagram. It might be caused by a plant-growth hormone that emanates in waves from developing leaves' pores ...

There is a T-shirt on sale at Myer right now. It is made by an Australian fashion house, Lioness, and across the front in casual script are printed six words: “I’m too pretty to do math” (sic). This T ...

Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews WSJ Business World Columnist Holman Jenkins. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/Daniel Heuer/Bloomberg News If nobody understands a mathematical proof ...

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