The question of how gravity interacts with the quantum world has long perplexed physicists, but a non-quantum theory of space ...

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Getting this crew to agree that the state’s health care system is broken was easy. Getting them to agree on solutions? That’s a little tougher. The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation ...

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 ...

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 ...

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