This year has seen some amazing advancements in fundamental mathematics. Researchers have made breakthroughs in geometry, topology, chaos theory, and more. And a startling three of our top 10 ...

Frank Dario Manfuga, a musician from Cuba, says it was an ad on Facebook recruiting for carpenters in Russia that led him to board a plane in January bound for Moscow. But when he landed, Manfuga says ...

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Remember when the University of California kicked off a trend by eliminating the SAT test as an ...

Heroic Vietnam War veteran Robert Stirm — who appeared in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo showing the excited reunion between the long-held prisoner of war and his family — has died, his family ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Retired Col. Robert Stirm, featured in the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Burst of Joy,” a symbol of the Vietnam War’s ...

It’s the ultimate homecoming photo — a smiling family rushing to reunite with a U.S. Air Force officer in 1973 who spent years as a POW in North Vietnam, his oldest daughter sprinting ahead with her ...

Across the country, educators continue to wrestle with big questions about math curricula. Two years ago, the California education board’s adoption of a long-gestating new math framework added more ...

For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...

The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a ...

A newspaper clipping about a ship that sank while Charles Atteberry, of Wilder, was being transported as a prisoner of war to Japan. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency After nearly 80 years of being ...