Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...

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“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the planar unit distance problem. The question posed by the legendary Hungarian ...

After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot. “No previous AI-generated proof has come ...

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As President Trump prepares for a reported visit to China, Washington will focus on the signals coming out of the meeting. It should also be asking a more uncomfortable question: How much insight into ...

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / April 21, 2026 / In 2026, businesses and publishers across multiple countries are discovering that a 1998 copyright law can be weaponized to erase their websites from ...

Sunshine Canyon Fire Protection District firefighter hoses down hot embers while fighting the Wild Turkey fire in Four Mile Canyon on December 22, 2025. The fire was started when a downed power line ...

Sunshine Fire Protection District firefighter working on a fire started by a downed electrical line in Sunshine Canyon, Colo. on December 20, 2025. (Courtesy of Sunshine Canyon Fire Protection ...