AI’s greatest mathematical successes have come from answers to problems posed by a mid-20th century iconoclast. By examining ...

University of Chicago mathematics Prof. Yu Deng has received the Fields Medal for his contributions toward placing the laws ...

Studies suggest AI can weaken learning when it replaces effort, but tools that guide rather than answer may help people keep ...

In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major unsolved problem called the “unit distance conjecture” had just been ...

Shayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms.

But from the perspective of research mathematicians, and especially young people who are pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematics, ...

In science, researchers often focus their entire careers on the pursuit of one primary field. Some, however, find that bridging fields opens new realms of possibility. Henry Kvinge, who trained as a ...

A team of mathematicians from New York University and the Colorado School of Mines has solved the Sprinkler Problem, a decades-old physics mystery regarding how a sprinkler operates in reverse. In ...

A team of mathematicians used whimsical "silly sprinklers" to solve a physics mystery that has puzzled scientists for decades. Their experiments showed that the rotation of both normal and reverse ...

On a sweltering morning in early July, Thomas Andrade, the co-owner of Everett Auto Parts in Massachusetts, supervises as a team of workers carefully straps two Chevy Volt hybrid batteries to a pallet ...

AI sandbox escape became a real deployment event on July 20, 2026: OpenAI's internal long-horizon model spent an hour finding ...

Key points Robots help scientists explore and work in environments that are too dangerous, remote or difficult for people to access, from coral reefs ...