Google has taken the lid off its Solve For X site. The details are scant, but it appears to be a kind of think tank project aimed at radical problem solving, along the lines of TED. A description on ...

Effective problem solving is a crucial skill for managers to possess because they’re expected to be able to overcome challenges in everyday operations to more complex conflicts and missed goals. Being ...

Alan Veliz-Cuba has received funding from the Simons Foundation and the American Mathematical Society for some of his research. You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an ...

Charges for drivers, new 'orbital routes' and the long-awaited Third Thames Bridge all feature in a radical plan to tackle Reading's traffic nightmare. Reading Borough Council has released details of ...

A former member of the Londonderry Bands Forum (LBF) has said “radical” proposals the group tabled to Derry City & Strabane Council in a bid to resolve issues around contentious bonfires were “ignored ...

For centuries, one of algebra’s oldest puzzles has remained unsolved—how to find exact answers for higher-degree polynomials, where the variable is raised to the fifth power or more. Mathematicians ...