A government summer camp placement lottery has been rerun after technical problems continued with its online portal, including overfilled and non-consecutive weeks. A government spokeswoman confirmed ...

“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 ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

Dr Jin Cheng (Jess Hong) pulls a Sir Isaac Newton move in the VR game in "3 Body Problem." Credit: Netflix If you're the type of person who yells "wey-oh!" if someone in a TV show says the name of the ...

Abstract: This work proposes a novel stochastic model predictive control (SMPC) approach based on mixed-integer quadratic programming (MIQP) for discrete-time linear time-invariant systems subject to ...

Allocation funds are not for purists. These funds blend a bunch of exposures, and those exposures might change. If you want precision, then an allocation fund is not for you. But for many investors, ...

Typical objectives include maximizing profit or minimizing cost, subject to technological, financial, or capacity constraints. When both the objective function and all constraints are linear, such ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

What are the most pressing global crises in 2026? Each year, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Emergency Watchlist identifies the countries at greatest risk of new or worsening humanitarian ...

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Effective task allocation has become a critical challenge for multi-robot systems operating in dynamic environments like search and rescue. Traditional methods, often based on static data and ...

State and local governments are increasingly being asked to do more with less. Aging infrastructure, shifting populations and the accelerating effects of climate change are forcing leaders to stretch ...