In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph. D.

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Yu Deng of the University of Chicago links Newtonian mechanics and the Boltzmann equation, advancing Hilbert’s Sixth Problem ...

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 ...

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Giraffe intelligence research is changing how the world views animal cognition. A new scientific discovery shows that ...

The University of California system abandoned its standardized testing requirement. It’s facing an existential crisis in the ...

Large language models face a fundamental computational limit that causes undetected errors in complex tasks. Hybrid AI ...

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