“The Digital Delusion” by Jared Cooney Horvath connects the collapse in standardized test scores to the rise of education ...

A visual representation of tensor networks. (Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Simons Foundation) Efforts to advance quantum computing are ...

We teach the wrong math and test it the wrong way. We devote thousands of hours to the obsolete rote math that pervades our high-stakes exams—math ...

AI math proof verification reached a new frontier as DeepMind’s AlphaProof Nexus solved nine open Erdős research problems with Lean-verified proofs, some unsolved for 56 years. The May 2026 Science Ne ...

The closest the field has come to solving the planar unit distance problem, first proposed in the 1940s, was in 1984. Now, OpenAI claims an internal model has cracked the puzzle.

Using a conventional computer and cutting-edge mathematical tools and code, physicists at the Center for Computational ...

For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alpha—a website that solves algebraic problems online—has threatened to make algebra homework obsolete. Teachers learned to work around and with ...

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 ...

As AI threatens to upend the workplace, a proposed state law would require large employers to disclose job losses to the ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about ...

Cambridge International Education (CIE) on Wednesday announced that the replacement exam for the postponed A Level ...

The day when a quantum computer can crack commonly used forms of encryption is drawing closer. The world isn’t prepared, ...