March 13 is "Pi Day," a celebration of the irrational number pi. Six-time USA Memory champion Nelson Dellis has memorized hundreds of pi digits. He talks about how, and other techniques to improve ...

Celebrate Pi Day and read all about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page. Grab something circular, like a cup, measure the distance around the circle, and divide ...

The South Florida Water Management District is in its second year of managing a Python Removal Program. Winners win cash prizes.

The 2026 NCAA Tournament is one week away, with Selection Sunday arriving on March 15. Once brackets are revealed, there are only a few days before the tournament officially begins, so now is the ...

Random numbers are very important to us in this computer age, being used for all sorts of security and cryptographic tasks. [Theory to Thing] recently built a device to generate random numbers using ...

Edwin Castro of Altadena, California, holds the record for largest lottery winner ever with $2.04 billion Publix grocery store in Newnan, Georgia, sold a winning Mega Millions ticket worth $983 ...

Eric Idle has revealed he was speaking on the phone to the “clever, talented and very thoughtful” Rob Reiner mere hours before Reiner and his wife were killed at their L.A. home. The Monty Python alum ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...