A 17-year-old student from Hyderabad, Aaryaman Maheshwari, is transforming computer education for government school children by teaching coding through cooking metaphors. His initiative, SmartBharat, ...

Emily Schmitt, chief administrative officer and general counsel for Sukup Manufacturing, speaks during a meeting of Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds' task force on government efficiency in Des Moines on Monday.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...