Smithsonian Magazine

Mathematicians Puzzled Over a Famous Problem for 80 Years. Now, They’ve Used A.I. to Identify a Clever Solution

In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now ...

The Hidden Algorithms Of The Natural World

Every organism you have ever seen, every ecosystem you have ever walked through, is the ongoing output of an algorithm that ...