It was evening, and my preschooler declared she wanted to pick out her pajamas for the night. She confidently walked to her room and returned wearing a perfectly mismatched set. While practicing ...

In a scene that could have easily featured in an episode of the US television sitcom The Big Bang Theory, the late US physicist Richard Feynman once turned a visit to a Thai restaurant he often dined ...

Last month many mathematicians were shocked by OpenAI’s announcement that artificial intelligence had solved geometry’s famous “unit distance” problem. For some, the achievement was exciting. But ...

Nothing rivals the human brain's complexity. Its 86 billion neurons and 85 billion other cells make an estimated 100 trillion connections. If the brain were a computer, it would perform an exaflop (a ...

Mathematician Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London is training computers how to prove one of the most famous problems in math history: Fermat’s last theorem. Resolving the problem isn’t the point.

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The 2026 Masters has arrived at its final stanza, and the second nine is hot with some of the best golfers in the world jockeying for position at the country's best course. For one, ...

Rory McIlroy will wake up in the lead on Sunday at the Masters, but he won’t be there alone. Opening Saturday’s play with a historic six-shot lead, the defending champion struggled with accuracy in ...

All eyes are on Rory McIlroy at Augusta National this weekend. Can Masters history be made with McIlroy becoming the tournament’s fourth repeat champion or will a competitive field led by 2026 Players ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The 2026 Masters has officially arrived with three days of pristine golf remaining at the country's best course. The action continues with the 91 men in the star-studded Masters field ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

David E. Dunning explores how mathematical notation is a social, world-building technology. It’s natural to think of math as being fundamentally abstract. Whether it’s invented or discovered, its ...

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