From planning transportation networks to organizing massive datasets, many of society's most important challenges boil down ...

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For the second time in a week, a long-standing conjecture has been disproved by artificial intelligence, highlighting the ...

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The Classic Maya period, from around 250-900 CE, is seen as something of a golden age for the civilization. During that time, the Maya people made huge leaps forward in terms of architecture, ...

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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 ...

AI can rifle through enormous libraries of information to connect far-flung ideas—conceptual leaps remain a purely human skill. The planar unit distance problem, or Erdős problem 90, has intrigued ...

There are several weird aspects to the "Anti-Weaponization Fund" established by President Donald Trump's settlement of his lawsuit against the IRS. Perhaps most puzzling of all, the amount of taxpayer ...

An 80-year-old maths conjecture that has eluded the world’s greatest mathematicians has been cracked by an artificial intelligence model built by OpenAI. The result has stunned experts and is being ...

In the dusty, book-filled tumult of the Jaipur Literature Festival, where the air thrums with the rhythms of poetry and politics, one might not expect to find a mathematician holding court. But there ...

The U.S. high school graduation rate is among the highest in years, with 86 percent of seniors attaining a diploma after four years of study. The rate should be a reason to crow. But it isn’t. The ...