Don't underestimate the power of a yes-or-no question. Some of the toughest computing problems boil down to thousands of tiny ...

What’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itself ...

If you’ve ever struggled with making a decision, you may have been advised to “sleep on it.” The idea is that a new insight might arrive when you wake up, because your subconscious mind works while ...

How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – but 100 years on, this trick is a common part of modern maths, says columnist ...

More than 21 weeks since the suspected abduction of Nancy Guthrie, the FBI and Google made a groundbreaking recovery of Nest doorbell video, two men have been detained and released without charges, ...

Bumble bees astonished researchers by inventing a new way to reach a hidden reward, despite never being taught the trick. The discovery adds to growing evidence that these tiny insects are far smarter ...

Autonomous AI coding has crossed a threshold that most software engineers did not expect to see this year: a new benchmark released Friday by Epoch AI and METR found that today's best model, Claude ...

If, as novelist-philosopher Samuel Butler wrote in 1878, “a hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg”, then a galaxy may only be a black hole’s way of making another black hole. To put it ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

CASE UPDATE: In September 2025, the Austin Police Department identified Robert Eugene Brashers, a serial killer and rapist, as the suspect in the Texas yogurt shop murders. Brashers, who is deceased, ...

A new quantum-inspired algorithm has cracked a problem so massive that conventional supercomputers struggle to even approach it. Researchers used the method to simulate extraordinarily complex quantum ...

The mysterious deaths of four members of the Dokadia family in Pydhonie have taken a major turn after Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) reports confirmed the presence of zinc phosphide, a highly toxic ...