ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

In 2024, Olli Loukola of the Finland co-authored a study demonstrating that bumblebees could cooperate to solve complex challenges. It’s the kind of cognitive task scientists had previously only ...

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

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got ...

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The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to ...

“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 ...

New research suggests the fuzzy insects may be capable of spontaneously solving problems the way animals with much larger ...

These are math’s most famous open questions. Solve one, and you’ll win a $1-million prize—but it’s only happened once since ...

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 ...

A debate has been raging among planetary scientists for more than a decade—why are there so few exoplanets with a radius of ...