For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

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The latest Social Security Trustees Report contains a warning that neither political party should ignore. If Congress fails to act, Social Security's retirement trust fund is projected to become ...

The creator runs you through three rapid-fire math problems — 9+2, 5+3, 10-6 — then asks you to think of a number between 5 and 12. If you said 7, you're in the majority and you weren't random at all.

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

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 ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: For the first time, the ’90s cult classic Tales From the Crypt has arrived on streaming! Watch it… if you dare. Premiering all the way back in 1989 on HBO, the beloved ...

Tales From the Crypt has found a home on streaming thanks to Shudder, meaning fans of anthology horror can now gorge themselves on the series inspired by the 1950s EC Comics that aired during HBO’s ...