I recently met with some brilliant Russian mathematicians who showed me a way for artificial intelligence models to communicate via something akin to machine telepathy. The mathematicians work for a ...

Google says pairing Antigravity's Teamwork framework with Gemini 3.7 Flash cracked seven open math and computer science ...

In a step toward giving math the attention early literacy has gotten, the Legislature on Monday approved a bill that would require schools to assess the math capabilities of all students in ...

From haikus to math journals and comic strips, there are major benefits when writing is infused into the math curriculum.

California fourth graders have scored lower than their peers in most states on a national test. On California's 2025 state ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world, we’re forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper ...

Let’s start here: math’s most famous problem is no closer to being solved than it was a week ago. Neither humans nor artificial intelligence have made progress on the Riemann hypothesis. But AI did ...

Do you understand quantum parallel repetition? What about quantum complexity, lattice cryptography, or extremal combinatorics? The new OpenAI model Astra knows all about them. Recently, OpenAI ...

Freedom and restraint seem like opposing forces, but to Yu Deng, they go hand in hand. Take the poem he’s just pulled up on his computer screen: a dense forest of Chinese characters corralled into ...

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A conversation with author Anne Morriss on why the slow and steady approach can leave issues unresolved. When it comes to solving complex, layered problems, the default for many organizational leaders ...

Despite having tiny brains, bumblebees have demonstrated a remarkable ability to socially learn how to use tools, solve simple puzzles, and cooperate to achieve a goal. It seems they can also solve ...