Have you ever waited for your bus at a bus stop for a very long time—only to be greeted by two or more buses arriving together? This phenomenon, known as “bus bunching,” is a problem that bus transit ...

At MIT, bright young engineers are still asked to tackle devilish math problems on their way to a degree. But officials at Boston Public Schools (BPS) are hoping they can turn their attention to the ...

The inside of a bus may not seem like the ideal place to rekindle your interest in math, but a group of mathematicians is betting it will. Last month, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute of ...

Timetables are lists of times that present information about when something will happen. They can also tell you how long something will take. This is also known as its duration. When you read ...

Math is everywhere—if you know where to look. Elegant equations can be observed in everything from flower petals to swirling galaxies. Universality, a phenomenon that strikes a balance between order ...