Mathematicians have broken through a long-standing barrier in the study of “minimizing surfaces,” which play an important ...

In a remarkable development, a human mathematician has achieved what many thought impossible: solving the centuries-old “kissing problem” in mathematics. This breakthrough, reported on October 23, ...

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...

DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve helps solve a math puzzle with Terence Tao, showing how AI can now invent new ideas—and prove old ones ...

The study seeks to explain the presence of dark matter using a WED model. The scientists studied fermion masses, which they ...

The tallest man to ever live was Robert Wadlow, who reached a staggering 2.72m. That's equal to a very large male ostrich or Shaquille O'Neal with two bowling pins balanced on his head.

Human cognition and AI cognition may never share a full axis. But independence does not imply isolation either. The future ...

Some back-of-napkin math suggests OpenAI is spending more than a quarter of what it’s making to power the AI slop factory.

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

Your power banks's capacity won’t neatly map onto your charging needs, but finding the right size doesn’t have to be ...

String theory unifies all the forces of nature. Forces that seem very different, such as gravity and electricity, are deeply ...