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Mississippi State hosts a ribbon cutting on Friday [May 8], for the Hank Johnston Mathematics Center, an expansion of the university’s Math Domain located in Allen Hall. Standing, from left, are Math ...

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Several teams appeared to spend the second half of the U.S. professional basketball season losing games on purpose for a ...

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Tyler Hou, Elizabeth Kozlov, Zachary Siegel and Zain Zaidi are among the 19 fellowship recipients in the 2026 cohort for the ...

A new study links the universe’s expansion to quantum topology, suggesting that hidden mathematical structures may stabilize ...

A University of California, Santa Barbara physicist was awarded one of the most prestigious awards in science, shining a ...