A seemingly impossible math puzzle, discovered stuck to a tree by a passing hiker, has left the internet well and truly stumped. Despite living in an increasingly digital world, math remains something ...

A seemingly impossible maze designed for children has left the internet confused. In a post on a Reddit thread called 'Mildly Interesting', a user called u/dragsmic shared a photo of their son's paper ...

Paradox and contradiction are at the heart of social life and, consequently, of keen interest to sociologists like me. The tensions and contradictions that run through Aspen can be illustrated with a ...

In 2019, mathematicians finally solved a math puzzle that had stumped them for decades. It’s called a Diophantine Equation, and it’s sometimes known as the “summing of three cubes”: Find x, y, and z ...

An AS-level maths exam featured an "impossible" question that was worth more than 10% of the overall mark. The test was taken by nearly 6,800 students last Thursday, and the offending question was ...