Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...

Modern encryption relies on mathematical assumptions that quantum computers may soon render obsolete. This technological shift creates new ...

With automated proof-checkers, a problem can be broken up into small chunks, solved bit-by-bit, then reassembled with ...

Magnetic fields may be the hidden force bringing both newborn stars and giant black holes together. New computer simulations ...

By taking general relativity into higher dimensions, a trio of physicists has proven that a mathematical pattern of ripples ...

New research suggests the fuzzy insects may be capable of spontaneously solving problems the way animals with much larger ...

Bumblebees appear to be capable of coming up with creative solutions to new problems to get a sugary reward—and their ...

In 2024, Olli Loukola of the Finland co-authored a study demonstrating that bumblebees could cooperate to solve complex ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in ...

Scientists revisited the Antikythera Mechanism after a YouTuber’s experiment—and may have finally solved the mystery of the ...

This article is part of a package on the future of quantum computing. Read about the quest to develop these machines here and see an illustrated field guide to qubits here. The 21st-century fervor ...

Critics of artificial intelligence caution that, as a relatively new technology, its long-term effects on the human brain are still unknown. But a new study shows that AI could be dangerous even in ...