What is a venture capital firm supposed to do when it can’t generate enticing enough returns for its limited partners—the pension funds, family offices, and sovereign wealth funds that supply cash to ...

Climate action is falling behind on the goals as stated in the Paris Agreement. To meet those goals, countries must act according to their "fair share" targets. However, researchers from Utrecht ...

The figure shows how national climate pledges (NDCs) compare with global pathways that would limit warming to between 1.5°C and 4°C. Under the approach as proposed in the research, global emissions ...

Say what you will about the universality of numbers and symbols; I’d politely argue that it does not follow that mathematics is a universal language. The problem for many struggling math students is ...

Math education is rapidly changing. And while there are real headwinds with respect to math achievement, the new ideas and curricula that are emerging have the potential to power real progress for ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...