Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Spatial, No Problem. sees electronic duo Mouse on Mars team up with the late, great Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry for fifty minutes of jaunty, elaborate instrumentals, and deeply enjoyable vocals from the giant ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on March 29 confirmed that he would allow a Russian tanker to supply Cuba despite the blockade against the island. The United States has blocked shipments from ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

A recent announcement that an artificial intelligence model succeeded in solving a decades-old mathematical problem that had eluded generations of accomplished mathematicians was widely portrayed as ...

It started almost by accident. At my startup Dwelly, I constantly push the limits of what AI tools can actually do. One day I just typed into a chat: “Can you prove P ≠ NP?”—referring to the problem ...

In this video, we provide essential "math help" for the "ged test", specifically addressing problems where a calculator is not allowed. This "math tutorial" covers 12 different "math problem" examples ...

An 80-year-old challenge in geometry has been cracked by an artificial-intelligence chatbot after a single prompt from mathematicians at the technology firm OpenAI. The company, based in San Francisco ...

Although many mathematicians agreed with him, no one could find a way to mathematically prove it. A chatbot solution Recently, the company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, announced that its internal AI model ...

Little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s. Now, researchers have found the answer to r(4,t), a longstanding Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for decades.

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it ...

Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then quietly ...