Walking on to the deck, you see a whiteboard with numbers and symbols scribbled all over. The novice swimmer might ask, “Am I in math class or at swim practice?” However, the experienced swimmer knows ...

Let's face it: numbers, for many of us, just don't add up. And unless math is part of your day job, you can generally avoid messing with nasty sums when you graduate from school. Those complicated ...

For those of you who take sandcastle building very seriously, listen up: MIT engineers now say you can trust a very simple equation to calculate the force required to push a shovel -- and any other ...