Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

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 ...

OpenAI makes big splash with AI finding math problem breakthrough. Real lesson is to use AI to find counterexamples. An AI ...

Researchers at Google DeepMind have announced that their AI system, AlphaProof Nexus, has solved nine longstanding problems ...

A chatbot’s result for the 80-year-old “unit distance” conjecture is the first AI proof that would likely be published in ...

Louisiana students are outpacing their peers in most states in reading and math growth, even as much of the country struggles to recover from a “learning recession,” according to a new report.

With the release of the NFL schedule coming on Thursday night, we've decided to start making preparations by breaking down every team's strength of schedule for 2026, and well, I have some bad news ...

Strength of schedule became a hot topic of conversation last NFL season. The traditional way of looking at schedule strength is through the cumulative 2025 record of 2026 opponents. By that measure, ...

There's a difference between a "tough game" and a truly punishing schedule -- and in 2026, several expected College Football Playoff contenders are about to find out where that line is drawn. The ...

A ripple tells you something happened, but not exactly what. That is the core problem behind a hard class of equations that scientists use when they try to work backward from what they can measure to ...

Penn Engineers have developed a new way to use AI to solve inverse partial differential equations (PDEs), a particularly challenging class of mathematical problems with broad implications for ...

There's a difficult answer to Liverpool's surprise Alexander Isak problem. Can they actually fix it? Alexander Isak is a problem for Liverpool. No one saw that coming when they spent £130m on him to ...