Several local students earned top national and state rankings in this year’s Math Kangaroo mathematics competition, placing ...

Mathematicians have considered how to watch every corner of a space—but soccer adds moving players, blocked views and ...

A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows systems still fall short of top human expertise.

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...

AI makes a major breakthrough in a math problem that had stumped experts for decades by Paul Arnold, Phys.org edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes The GIST ...

Company says work on Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning OpenAI has claimed a further advance in AI reasoning after its technology successfully tackled an 80-year-old ...

OpenAI has once again made a big claim in the world of AI and mathematics. The company says that one of its latest AI reasoning models has successfully solved a famous geometry problem that remained ...

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 ...

Microplastics are so widespread that they've been found everywhere from oceans and farmland to human blood and lungs. But for many households, one of the biggest sources of microplastic pollution is ...

Laundry may seem harmless, but this article says it can shed hundreds of thousands of plastic fibers into the water supply. Microplastics are already showing up in oceans, farmland, human blood, and ...

Saint Marys Area Middle School math teacher Nick Rhoades likes to start his classes off with a number sense routine—a short instructional activity designed to build students’ math muscles through ...