When checking that solutions to certain problems are correct, it turns out, you can’t get around the inherent complexity of ...

Many students appear to be completing assignments faster while learning less from them. This conclusion comes from one of the largest studies of how generative AI is changing student behavior and ...

GenAI’s breakthrough in mathematics offers a lesson for medicine: solving healthcare’s biggest problems means questioning old ...

ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

America, we’ve got a middle school problem. Although reading and math scores are up for 9-year-olds on the National Assessment of Educational Progress’ Long-Term Trend assessment, scores haven’t ...

This month, 30 mathematicians gathered at Harvard University to grade a consequential and difficult problem set. This wasn’t just any test; its outcome would guide a field grappling with existential ...

Whenever I get coffee with a mathematician, I always ask which of the seven Millennium Problems they think will be next to fall. These are math’s most famous open questions. Solve one, and you’ll win ...

The Pittsburgh Steelers' quarterback room is only going to grow more popular as the 2026 season goes on and into the future. Steelers GM Omar Khan and new head coach Mike McCarthy wanted to go all in ...

The best-yet test of artificial intelligence’s mathematical mettle has released its first official round of results. The verdict is that large language models (LLMs) are emerging as useful—albeit ...

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 ...

While counseling a group of seventh-graders I asked them to reflect about what they would like to improve in their lives. Two of them said that they wished they could do better in science. They ...