OpenAI makes big splash with AI finding math problem breakthrough. Real lesson is to use AI to find counterexamples. An AI ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...

Then it’s kind of a mystery to try to figure out why and how they’re related.” The Riemann hypothesis has proved to be a font of surprising connections all over math and beyond it, to the realm of the ...

As far back as the Stone Age, humans started digging asbestos from cliffs or riverbeds. They mixed the fibrous silicate mineral into clay for pottery that could better withstand heat, and northerners ...

P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help scientists uncover hidden causes behind observable effects. By introducing ...

Minecraft master Craftee gains the ability to step directly inside any block. Trump mocks Obama after judge orders Kennedy Center name removal Hiker discovers body of missing New Mexico nuclear lab ...

Real Madrid and Arsenal have conducted several transfer dealings over the years, and that relationship could continue as the Spanish side reportedly targets two players from the Gunners. The ongoing ...

At the beginning of a recent math class, students spent six minutes discussing a topic they knew well: themselves. What’s their favorite food? Answers came in English and Spanish—“todo” (everything), ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Just a few months after California overhauled the way it teaches children to read, a new bill takes on math education ...

Neymar’s chance of going to the 2026 World Cup lives on, but it may have come at the expense of teenage talent Estêvão, whose dream is cruelly over. Neymar hasn’t played for the national team in ...