“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

This Pew Research Center analysis examines Americans’ views of problems facing the country. Pew Research Center conducts research to help the public, media and decision-makers understand important ...

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Executives are increasingly enamored with the promise of an AI-driven transformation and have invested accordingly. Most large-scale companies have initiated hundreds of pilots and provided widespread ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

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Consider someone who’s perfectly content with their office chair. It’s not ergonomic, it doesn’t have lumbar support, but it works. Then, during a meeting or a visit to a friend’s office, they sit in ...

The Nature Index 2026 Research Leaders reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural sciences, health sciences, applied sciences and social sciences, according to their ...

Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...

Modern AI excels at pattern recognition but suffers when faced with logical reasoning tasks. What happens when we ask a neural network to solve a Sudoku puzzle from an image, verify a mathematical ...