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 ...

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 ...

Daniel is the son of Oxana and Askar and the brother of Michael, and lives in Greenland. He will attend the University of New Hampshire as a Hamel Scholar, studying computer engineering. He would like ...

Folding a flat piece of paper into a torus — a shape with a hole in the middle — demands origami skill. That’s something mathematician Richard Evan Schwartz lacks. Yet he answered a lingering ...

Yann LeCun's new paper establishes the exact conditions under which LeJEPA can learn true world models, proving Gaussian ...

In a new open-access study that I published with my late colleague Kostya Trachenko from Queen Mary University of London, I propose a surprisingly simple nonlinear mathematical equation that unifies ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) ...

After an AI from OpenAI found a trick to solve an 80-year-old conjecture from Paul Erdős, mathematicians have borrowed the ...

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Understanding the gap between how today's parents learned math and how their children are being taught, and how to work with ...

As a meteorologist, improvements to our forecasting come from higher resolution satellites, more rapid information, and ...

Researchers formulated a mathematical equation that unifies 12,000 years of human population growth and points to an alarming ...