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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 ...

“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 ...

The debate over whether Graham Platner is “working class” comes at a time when more and more people are at risk of falling into it. By Noam Scheiber Noam Scheiber covers labor and workplace issues for ...

Hundreds of University of California (UC) professors signed a letter demanding the reinstatement of SAT/ACT mathematics requirements for students after revealing they are re-teaching basic math to ...

Janos Englander was elected a full member of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society in 2026. Sigma Xi is the world’s largest general research honor society. It is an international, ...

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 ...

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If the monitor connected to your PC, whether primary or secondary, is not displaying the full screen in Windows 11/10, the methods below will help fix the issue. Adjust the screen resolution in ...

Penn researchers have developed a smarter AI method for solving notoriously difficult inverse equations, which help scientists uncover hidden causes behind observable effects. By introducing ...