Student scores in high-income countries hit a low point, test shows
Families’ interest in their kids’ education is falling in many high-income countries as school systems struggle with plunging…
An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems
For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in…
AI Helps Crack an 87-Year-Old Math Conjecture With One Tiny Formula
A remarkably simple three-dimensional function has exposed an unexpected limit to a century-old mathematical conjecture. Credit: Shutterstock An…
Scientists unravel new physics after laser diffracts in chiral patters
Scientists at the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) at the University of Tokyo in Japan have come across…
Monkeys Understand Shapes in Almost the Same Way as Humans
You (probably) won’t find a monkey in a geometry class, but it looks like our fellow primates can…
Researchers Claim to Have Solved the Perplexing ‘Reverse Sprinkler’ Problem That Stumped Feynman
Scientists say they have solved in detail what may be the most famous lawn-care-related problem in all of…
Quantum Mechanics May Not Need Imaginary Numbers After All
Quantum mechanics has long relied on complex numbers to describe the strange behavior of particles, from tunneling to…
Claude’s Solution to Decades-Long Math Mystery Is ‘Essentially Correct,’ Physicists Say
As typically is the case with AI, whether it truly adds any value to human work depends on…
Physicists Solve a “Quantum-Only” Problem Using an Ordinary Laptop
Tensor networks enable researchers to tackle quantum physics problems previously thought to be solvable only by quantum computers.…
They Spent Years on a Math Problem. Then They Were Scooped by A.I.
So last fall, when Math, Inc. told the group that Gauss had solved about 30 unfinished pieces of…
Opinion | We Have to Take the Future of A.I. Into Our Own Hands
So far, the policy conversation about A.I. has focused on preventing harms to the public. What if A.I.…
A Hidden Pattern in Famous Abstract Art Reveals a Secret Mathematical “Golden Rule” Linked to Human Perception
When most people think of visual art, they don’t usually think of math at the same time. One…