America, we’ve got a middle school problem. Although reading and math scores are up for 9-year-olds on the National ...

While LSD and psilocybin typically distort or enhance a person’s experience of their current environment, DMT seems to shake ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...

Math illuminates how traffic flows, how our cells build proteins and even how to speed up medical imaging scans. Some worry ...

The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to ...

OpenAI's AI helped overturn a longstanding math conjecture by finding a counterexample, highlighting a powerful new way to ...

The math world is losing its mind over the new solution to an Erdős problem. This is what AI found, how we missed it—and why it matters.

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Kevin Lieber of Vsauce2 examines how the number 100,000 transforms within a complex mathematical puzzle.

Then it’s kind of a mystery to try to figure out why and how they’re related.” The Riemann hypothesis has proved to be a font of surprising connections all over math and beyond it, to the realm of the ...

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 ...