The White House announced the winners of its first Presidential AI Challenge, a nationwide competition aimed to spur students ...

Whenever I get coffee with a mathematician, I always ask which of the seven Millennium Problems they think will be next to ...

Researchers in Japan have developed quantum multi-programming auto mode, a function that automatically runs quantum programs ...

In a series of experiments, the fuzzy pollinators figured out how to use a ball as a tool to access a sugary treat. The study ...

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

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

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

P vs. NP asks: are these two classes actually the same? If P = NP, then every “hard” problem is secretly fast to solve; we ...

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 ...

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 ...

The research, conducted across three separate randomized experiments involving math and reading comprehension tasks, found something that should make any AI user pause and think. After around ten ...

New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem ...