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In James Bell’s math class at Chapman High School, sophomores are trying to pinpoint exactly where two lines cross. The ...

The Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, endorsed by the International Mathematical Union and signed by Fields Medal recipient Peter Scholze, calls on mathematicians to ...

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A federal judge in New Hampshire on Thursday ruled the state’s 2024 law requiring first-time voters in the state to provide proof ...

A federal judge on May 28 declared that New Hampshire’s 2024 law requiring first-time voters in the state to show proof of U.S. citizenship when they register is unconstitutional. The ruling is a ...

CONCORD, N.H. — A federal judge has said that New Hampshire must make voter registration easier by allowing applicants to attest to their U.S. citizenship if they don’t have the documents to prove it.