Math is not everyone’s favorite, understandably. Hours of math homework and difficult equations can make anyone sour on the subject. But when math problems are outside of a school setting, there’s no ...

A remote village in the mountains is difficult to access and has few inhabitants. Because of their long isolation, they have split into three groups with strange behavior patterns. The truth tellers ...

In 2023, I posed 23 challenges as part of the Gizmodo Monday Puzzle series. Some require a bit of math, and others a light familiarity with physics; but most can be solved through logic and creative ...

Mathematicians have not yet succeeded in finding a formula for the number of different ways a road map can be folded, given n creases in the paper. Some notion of the complexity of this question can ...

The Riemann Hypothesis is one of the most famous problems in that set. It’s about prime numbers. That’s any whole number that can only be divided by 1 and itself – like 2, 3, 5, 7 and 11.