The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why ...

Many things labeled “impossible” are inherited assumptions waiting to be challenged through courage, experimentation, and persistence.

A visual representation of tensor networks. (Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Simons Foundation) Efforts to advance quantum computing are ...

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 ...

Between 2010 and 2022, average high school grade-point averages rose significantly — especially in math, to 3.32 from 3.02.

Since at least seventh grade, 2026 Central High School graduate Zeke Simpson has known he wanted to study math, and even at ...

Online users branded President Donald Trump a 'moron' after he claimed his administration is slashing drug prices by "400-500%. "We're getting drug prices down by 400-500% or depending on the way you ...

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

OpenAI says its latest AI model has solved a mathematical problem that has been unsolved for 80 years. Here is what this ...

If you switch a lamp on and off an infinite number of times, will the light end up on or off? Somehow math says both ...

For most people, the image of runners circling a track may suggest competition, but for Tanupat Trakulthongchai, a ...