BRITAIN’S sixth generation Tempest fighter jet could be axed to fill the Ministry of Defence’s £28billion black hole. Defence Secretary John Healey has been told that scrapping the £24billion Global ...

Wall Street seems to have crowned Frontier Airlines as the main beneficiary of Spirit Airlines’ demise — judging by the stock’s 20% move higher this week. Markets also like that Frontier has enough ...

Learn how to graph a quadratic equation in standard form. To do this we will explore multiple methods such as the intercept method, identifying the vertex, axis of symmetry and identifying points on ...

Have you run across the term “down fill power” while shopping for sleeping bags, puffer jackets, or a duvet? These numbers range from 450 to 900, and sometimes above. Generally—but not always—the ...

Fresh off the success of Aamir Khan starrer “Sitaare Zameen Par,” director R.S. Prasanna is developing a biopic on legendary Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, positioning the project as a ...

Although not a household scientific name like Albert Einstein or Isaac Newton, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan—who tragically died in 1920 at the age of 32—was one of the greatest minds in ...

Ramanujan’s elegant formulas for calculating pi, developed more than a century ago, have unexpectedly resurfaced at the heart of modern physics. Researchers at IISc discovered that the same ...

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, ...

Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in school, where we learn about its use in the context of a circle. More ...

From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to ...