It’s long been a mystery why there are 3 generations of quarks and leptons: three sets of particles, apparently identical except for how they interact with the Higgs boson. It would be nice if there ...

Quantum entanglement is key to solving a 250-year-old mathematical puzzle – and the discovery could ultimately help build quantum computers that are more resilient to errors. In the 1700s, according ...

OpenAI showed that AI can tackle long-standing problems in mathematics. Experts are excited about the possibilities — and worried about what comes next for their field.

AI-powered breakthroughs are raising big questions about how to do mathematics – and why we do it in the first place.

OpenAI is making a strong headway. In a recent blog post, the AI startup claims that its Astra model—not yet released to the ...

OpenAI Group PBC revealed Saturday that an internal version of Astra, the model family it calls its next major release, produced new results for 10 problems in mathematics and theoretical computer ...

First Annie Jacobsen laid out a fictional scenario for nuclear war. Now her new book, Biological War: A scenario, imagines a ...

A mathematician announced that he used one of Anthropic's A.I. models to find a counterexample to a problem called the Jacobian conjecture. While experts consider it a milestone, the work raises quest ...

Tangent accepted: The modern supply chain is one of the most powerful things in the world (basically allowing all the nice things like us not living in thatched huts and eating gruel), and as such, ...

After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot. “No previous AI-generated proof has come ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...