In a remarkable development, a human mathematician has achieved what many thought impossible: solving the centuries-old “kissing problem” in mathematics. This breakthrough, reported on October 23, ...

Researchers from Microsoft Research Asia, Peking University, and Xi'an Jiaotong University have developed a new technique to improve large language models' (LLMs) ability to solve math problems by ...

How human activities negatively affect urban red squirrels' problem-solving skills and potentially their chances of thriving is revealed in newly published research from the universities of Chester ...

Humanoids have sucked a lot of the air out of the room. It is, after all, a lot easier to generate press for robots that look and move like humans. Ultimately, however, both the efficacy and ...

In our daily life, we constantly deal with problems, ranging from the most mundane (e.g., what to cook for dinner given the ingredients at our disposal), to professional activities (e.g., how to ...

Almost immediately after a previous article of mine posted, I received an email that made me realize that in addition to thinking human, we need to be human. What does this mean? Here is how I came to ...

What happens when a machine almost outsmarts the world’s best coders? At the 2025 AtCoder World Finals, OpenAI’s secret internal AI model came astonishingly close to claiming victory in one of the ...

Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, ...

People might initially fail to find a solution to a problem because their first impressions set them up for failure. The way problems are presented can prevent people from seeing the relevant features ...