Today in Research: counting 10 trillion digits of Pi, encouraging progress for a malaria vaccine, another TV watching warning, and MIT researchers who are peering through concrete walls.

A data storage company has decoded more than 100 trillion digits of pi — smashing the world record for calculating the never-ending number. Unraveling this hefty slice of pi required the equivalent ...

PHOENIX — Saturday should be an infinitely enjoyable day. At 9:26:53, the calendar and clock will combine to make up the first 10 digits of pi, a mathematical number used to measure circles, making it ...

Hayden Erickson loves setting goals for himself. The 10-year-old from Chisholm accomplished a big one in time for Pi Day. “I wanted to memorize 314 digits of Pi for Pi Day. But I ended up memorizing ...

On March 14, the nerdier side of humanity celebrates Pi Day, a holiday that “commemorates the irrational, transcendent, and never-ending ratio that helps describe circles of all sizes.” Pi is the ...

Swiss researchers said on Monday they had calculated the mathematical constant pi to a new world-record level of exactitude. The constant π is represented in this mosaic outside the Mathematics ...

While building a simpler model for particle interactions, scientists made a sleek new pi. Representations of pi help scientists use values close to real life without storing a million digits. The ...

Pi Day is celebrated March 14 in schools because the date, 3-14, represents the numerical value of pi, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter – an infinite number that in decimal form ...

HONOLULU (KITV4) – National Pi Day is Tuesday, March 14, and two students from Holy Family Catholic Academy were able to memorize and write all 200 digits of the mathematical constant. Liliana Hunter ...

MANSFIELD - What do bakers and mathematicians have in common? Their love of pie, of course. Some just spell it Pi, and will celebrate it Sunday in honor of the unique mathematical constant's first ...