It's widely accepted that teachers and parents should praise the effort kids make -- rather than praise their innate ability -- if they want their students and children to be successful.
Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized desktop computer that has won over millions of hobbyists. It just got a big upgrade: The first major new edition of Raspberry Pi since February 2016 launches Monday, promising faster speeds and support for more modern devices.
Karen Uhlenbeck, a mathematician and professor at the University of Texas, has been awarded this year's Abel Prize, a mathematics prize modeled after the Nobels. It's the first time the prize has gone to a woman.
A Google employee has broken the world record for calculating pi just in time for the mind-bogglingly long number's special day.
NASA's new planet-hunting TESS telescope has found an exoplanet three times the size of Earth only 53 light-years away. It has also discovered a super-Earth and a rocky world, making three exoplanet discoveries in the first three months since it began surveying the sky in July.
Scientists and policy makers from around 60 nations voted unanimously Friday to redefine the kilogram.
The UW-La Crosse Department of Mathematics is one of three recipients of the UW System's highest recognition.
