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

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

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Dylan Kane likes his math curriculum. But there’s one important piece missing, he says. The 7th grade math teacher in Leadville, Colo., uses a program that teaches math skills through real-world ...

The P vs NP problem is a fundamental question in computer science, unproven for decades, with immense consequences. If ...

Animal psychologists have found that giraffes can mentally combine small sums of objects, but can't perform the subtractive equivalent.

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

Right off the bat, let’s give a shout out to the mathematician propeller-heads who create the transformations that make it possible to do all kinds of high performance computing to simulate, model, ...

Zvezdelina Stankova has taught mathematics at UC Berkeley for nearly three decades. But in 2023, while teaching introductory calculus for the first time since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic ...

You know how sometimes a road gets repaired just before a VIP is going to visit? Nadim Kobeissi, a computer science researcher at the American University of Beirut, used this to his country’s ...

Apple says testing missed flaws in new encryption designed to protect against future attacks from quantum computers, so it turned to mathematical proofs to make sure the code works correctly before ...

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 ...