Many students appear to be completing assignments faster while learning less from them. This conclusion comes from one of the largest studies of how generative AI is changing student behavior and ...

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

The P vs NP problem is a fundamental question in computer science, unproven for decades, with immense consequences. If ...

Despite constantly bragging about his cognitive test scores, Donald Trump appears to struggle with the concept of percentages. "Trump creates and inhabits his own reality with his own rules," Seth ...

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 ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

Few things are more painful than listening to an out-of-towner stumble over the pronunciation of “Matunuck” or hearing someone bring up “East Green-witch.” Rhode Island has more than its fair share of ...

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 ...

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, ...

“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 ...