“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 ...
Leaked API keys are nothing new, but the scale of the problem in front-end code has been largely a mystery - until now. Intruder’s research team built a new secrets detection method and scanned 5 ...
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 ...
This video breaks down the bizarre legal battle over who owns the JavaScript name. Despite not creating or maintaining the language, Oracle controls the trademark. The story traces how this happened ...
In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem that had stymied mathematicians for a century. In this case, the solvers weren't human. An artificial ...
You probably don’t need more time. By Jancee Dunn When I look back on all the major decisions I’ve dithered over, I could scream. It took me a decade to commit to becoming a parent. I wavered for a ...
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Word problems try and tell students a story about the math problem in front of them. They are a useful way to connect abstract numbers to concrete situations, so students can learn early on to apply ...
When the greatest mathematician alive unveils a vision for the next century of research, the math world takes note. That’s exactly what happened in 1900 at the International Congress of Mathematicians ...