A mathematician at Anthropic says he and Claude Fable 5 have taken down one of the oldest standing problems in algebraic geometry, ...

Jacob Braach took second place nationally, joining the ranks of only a handful of Montanans who have won country-wide ...

The Crisis at the Motor Pool In November 2011, I was a chief warrant officer 3 and took over as the battalion maintenance ...

How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – ...

A couple in their early 70s runs the numbers one more time. Their mortgage rate is locked in near 3%, well below the 4.40% yield on a 10-year Treasury and well below what a high-yield savings account ...

On Sunday, a team of nine researchers at Sina Weibo — the Chinese social media giant better known for its microblogging platform than for cutting-edge artificial intelligence — quietly posted a ...

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 ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how scientists understand animal intelligence and the power of insight — or spontaneous ...

Bumblebees faced with a challenge know how to play ball. Buff-tailed bumblebees can figure out on their own how to use a ball as a ladder to nab sugar from an out-of-reach fake flower, researchers ...

Despite having tiny brains, bumblebees have demonstrated a remarkable ability to socially learn how to use tools, solve simple puzzles, and cooperate to achieve a goal. It seems they can also solve ...

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 ...