Every few months, a new AI tool promises to transform legal work. The demos are impressive. The capabilities are real. And ...

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 ...

Solving for how without the why ...

Last week, I introduced Emmy Noether, an extraordinary figure in the fields of mathematics and physics. To understand Noether ...

How Emmy Noether's theorem uses the Lagrangian to provide a formula for calculating the quantity of symmetries in a system—like the orbit of planets.

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

Yu Deng of the University of Chicago links Newtonian mechanics and the Boltzmann equation, advancing Hilbert’s Sixth Problem ...

Giraffe intelligence research is changing how the world views animal cognition. A new scientific discovery shows that ...

In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph. D.

But by this spring, Khan had admitted that the release of Khanmigo was “a non-event” for many kids. Although access exploded, ...

The Leiden Declaration has a vision for mathematics that embraces AI tools, but where human values play a guiding role ...

When a standard large language model (LLM) is confronted with a problem, it tries to solve it by matching it to similar information it has seen before, and then give an answer based on those past ...