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When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...

Mount Prospect will place temporary speed humps and carry out other traffic calming measures in the Hatlen Heights neighborhood. But it remains to be seen what effect those measures will have on ...

Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a grueling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William Lowell Putnam ...

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James scored 17 points the day after his 41st birthday as the Lakers lost in an all-too-familiar way against the Pistons, ...

It is something we all experience. We learn something, but then forget it as soon as we turn away. In the late 19th century, ...

The Miami Dolphins will try to do something Monday night when they face the Pittsburgh Steelers at Acrisure Stadium that they've never been able to do with Mike McDaniel as head coach. It might not be ...

An interstellar comet is cruising through our cosmic neighbourhood, and as expected, the internet has questions. Some are curious, some are excited and a few are… apocalyptic. The object in question ...

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U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he hosts the signing ceremony of a peace deal with the President of Rwanda Paul Kagame (L) and the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Felix ...