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

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 ...

Despite having tiny brains, bumblebees have demonstrated a remarkable ability to socially learn how to use tools, solve simple puzzles, and cooperate to achieve a goal. It seems they can also solve ...

In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable is that the bees had never been trained. The findings challenge the ...

Visitors of Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary in Lothian can now extend their trip after the county unveiled eight new overnight cabins and five camping pads. Each cabin has five twin-sized beds, an outdoor ...

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 ...

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Wall Street is chasing AI momentum and leaving much of the market in the dust, but the smaller stocks are keeping up. The Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF, which counts every S&P 500 stock as if they ...

Should you give Buffo his juice jug in Mina the Hollower? Buffo the green frog enjoys drinking pain (his words), but his Glutton's Jug is empty, so he needs Mina to refill it by committing mass murder ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

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 ...