According to a mathematical model of how people weigh up different outcomes, the optimal strategy is to be ambitious, but not overly so ...

A federal judge has ordered that President Trump’s name be removed from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts—and that ...

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

A battle between “slimes” and “zoglins” could be the best way to calculate pi—at least for fans of this megahit game ...

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Three mathematicians have laid out proof that solves a long-standing problem in mathematics. Even the mathematician—an Abel ...

The AI-led successes in math could also spur human mathematicians to new levels of achievement. Days after OpenAI announced that one of ...

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 ...

There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with sleep. It comes from the accumulation of everything: the ...

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Did you know that NASA’s tool helps you discover your name hidden in Earth's landscapes? NASA has released a fascinating online tool that allows people to find their names written in natural landforms ...

The tipping point came in the summer of 2025. That July, several artificial intelligence models solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad, an annual challenge for some ...