Young children can reach agreement without talking or seeing the whole group. Their secret may be the mix of leaders, ...

Little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s. Now, researchers have found the answer to r(4,t), a longstanding Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for decades.

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 ...

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

Tommy Thompson used math to discover the legendary “Ship of Gold.” That’s when things got weird.

Thanks to some surprising advances, mathematicians are starting to realize that artificial intelligence could radically alter ...

There is a palpable fear among American workers that artificial intelligence (AI) is coming for their jobs. The answer to that fear, as I’ve argued, is to make job loss less scary by building a new ...

My fellow columnist Brian Feeney was in rare old form last week, urging Sinn Féin to abandon the ‘failing Assembly’. In fairness, I do have broad sympathy with the point he is making, although I would ...

The speed of light remains one of physics’ firmest assumptions, but scientists still test whether it ever shifts under ...

Making matters worse, today’s AI chatbots never admit they don’t know something, and they speak confidently and ...

Physicists searching for a better understanding of quantum gravity stumbled upon something unexpected: the defining ...

An exploration of 10 common cognitive traps and decision-making flaws where lower analytical reasoning combined with high ...