After so many years studying procrastination, Joseph Ferrari has some thoughts about why you can’t seem to get anything done ...

Tasmania needs to act “urgently” to counteract a population exodus that’s on track to leave its ageing population without ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

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These are some of the ways in which researchers describe the state of affairs for government data in many countries. Do you really know the way the world is heading? Take this quiz on plans to save ...

National statistical systems generate the statistics that underpin policy, economic analysis, and public trust. Yet, despite decades of investment in statistical capacity, two persistent challenges, ...

PROTECTING THE U.S. ECONOMY AND NATIONAL INTERESTS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Proclamation imposing a temporary import duty to address fundamental international payments problems and ...

Startups often take more risks, look to venture capitalists for funding, and plan to grow their business quickly. As a result, failure rates among startups are higher than those of small businesses.

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...