NBN Co is using software from a local commercial mathematics company in the design of the NBN.

Mathematical software specialist Wolfram Research has acquired MathCore Engineering.

If nothing else politics is a game of numbers, and Victoria University mathematician Professor John Zeleznikow has cranked the numbers in the final three federal seats to be decided to work out who will form government.

Australia’s national scientific research organization, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), is multiplying its efforts to add mathematical interest among its country’s students as Australia sees a greater need for mathematicians through 2013.

According to a U.S. study, early elementary female teachers, who are anxious and fearful about teaching mathematics to their students, were found to pass on that dread to their female students—but not to their male students.

According to a 2010 National Science Board report, the state of science and engineering in the U.S. is still good; however, the country’s lead in the number of researchers is being challenged by China. Other science and engineering indicators in the U.S. are also being challenged by Asian countries.

The U.S. space agency NASA is launching its 2010 Summer of Innovation to attract students into the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). If you want to go to space or to be part of space exploration, your best choices are in these areas of education.

Physicist Michael Green has been elected the eighteen recipient of the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He succeds Stephen Hawking to the prestigious mathematical position.

The recent announcement that the Bulgarian lottery produced the same six numbers in two consecutive draws left many observers making accusations of 'scam.'  However the maths may not support such a conclusion.

The head of NICTA’s computer operating systems research group, Professor Gernot Heiser, is the winner of the award for New South Wales Scientist of the Year for engineering, mathematics and computer sciences.