For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

A version of this essay appeared on Matthew Yglesias’ Slow Boring, a site dedicated to offering pragmatic takes on politics ...

DSpark can make decoding faster, but acceptance quality still determines how much speed the system actually realizes.

For many young South Africans, the months after matric are marked less by celebration than by uncertainty: a wait for work, for study or for any clear next step. According to the latest Quarterly ...

The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

A new quantum-inspired algorithm has cracked a problem so massive that conventional supercomputers struggle to even approach it. Researchers used the method to simulate extraordinarily complex quantum ...

Calls are growing for California’s high-speed rail to be abandoned completely after revelations the estimated cost of completing Gavin Newsom’s fantasy train project had ballooned to a staggering $231 ...

Green Valley’s newest art space is preparing to open to the public with a outdoor market featuring creative activities and artwork for sale. SPARK! is expected to return on the first Sunday of every ...

Chinese AI system autonomously solved a 2014 open problem in commutative algebra The AI combined natural language reasoning with formal machine verification techniques The solution was formalised with ...

A Chinese artificial intelligence framework has autonomously resolved an open problem proposed more than a decade ago by a US mathematician, according to the Peking University-led team that developed ...