Before enrolling at the University of Chicago in 2009, Olga Turanova and Jessica Lin had heard that graduate students in mathematics enjoy a special feeling of community here. "It certainly is true," ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This 75-minute teacher webinar focused on the ways in which the Maya have used the Sun to track time for thousands of years. Ancestral calendars ...

Most of us have a general idea as to why today is Feb. 29 instead of March 1, but until this morning, I, at least, had not been well steeped in the nitty-gritty details (or had forgotten them from ...

Based on Xuanzang’s account, Nalanda Mahavihara had an observatory tower, which could have been used to track the movement of the celestial bodies and calculate time accurately. Pataliputra (Patna), ...

This article offers a social and geographical network analysis of all attested works, authors, and practitioners in the mathematical sciences in China over the period of disunion and reunification ...

Astrophysics explores solar and space sciences, planetary systems, stellar and galactic astronomy, and cosmology. Students receive training in astronomy, mathematics, physics and computational and ...

The BA in astrophysical and planetary sciences provides students with a unified view of solar and space sciences, planetary systems (our solar system and others), stellar and galactic astronomy, and ...

Bates is welcoming a large group of new faculty this year. Seventeen tenured or tenure-track professors will join the college in the course of the 2025-2026 academic year. Bates News is introducing ...

As Yale aims to catch up to its peers in the sciences, growing departments will move to the renovated Kline Tower. But faculty shared mixed opinions about the upcoming relocation, particularly as most ...