Every generation faces a new technological revolution. Today it's artificial intelligence. Just 40 years ago it was the internet. And according to some of the biggest names in tech, AI may eventually ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics. Reading time 10 minutes Will ...

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...

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Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

It was the picture seen around the world: 5-year-old Liam Ramos detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Now, activists are raising new questions about what happened to that little boy next.

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Louisiana’s largest natural gas provider, Delta Utilities, sought to explain skyrocketing gas bills Wednesday amid rising anger from customers and elected officials, telling state regulators that they ...

The selection of credit cards in the U.S. market is enormous, and that’s just as true for airline cards. For Delta flyers in particular, there is an array of co-branded American Express cards with a ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Delta will introduce tiered fares for Business and First class, mirroring Basic Economy structure. New strategy offers “basic, main, and extra” categories for every cabin, increasing passenger ...