This holiday-themed brainteaser looks simple, but it's quietly tripping up adults everywhere. A math teacher walks us through ...

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Here are the answers to the festive maths quiz I set on December 23. I hope you enjoyed it.

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A version of this puzzle originally appeared in the October 1960 issue of Scientific American. What’s the Most Distant Galaxy ...

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The optional hint tells you how many segments can be broken. Your task is to then find which ones. Did Time Tick Slower for a Woman Who Spent 500 Days Alone in a Cave?

The inside of a bus may not seem like the ideal place to rekindle your interest in math, but a group of mathematicians is betting it will. Last month, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute of ...