‘I’m Really Terrified’: A Mathematician Grapples With AI’s Recent Breakthroughs
Mathematician and author Steven Strogatz starts to cry when he talks about the artificial-intelligence-driven breakthroughs in his field…
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…
AI-assisted tool helped secure satellite communication system after 2022 Russian hacking
WASHINGTON (AP) — On the same day it invaded Ukraine in 2022, Russia disabled thousands of satellite modems…
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…
Mathematicians grapple with a ‘very rapid and very unsettling change’ as AI cracks yet another century-old problem
On Sunday afternoon, while the rest of the world’s eyes were glued to the World Cup final, an…
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.…
Cleve Moler, Who Unlocked the Power of Computing for Millions, Dies at 86
Cleve Moler, a mathematician who, in the 1970s and ’80s, developed tools that made it possible to do…
Breaking News: US NSF Blacklists Four Top Universities, Harvard and Yale Unaware
A major earthquake has suddenly hit the U.S. scientific research community! Just today, Nature exclusively broke a bombshell…
Pi Day celebrates the number used in everything from rockets to cancer research
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Math nerds and dessert enthusiasts unite to celebrate Pi Day every March 14, the…
Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history
Are the days of handwritten mathematics coming to an end? Laborant / Alamy In March 2025, mathematician Daniel…