“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 ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

Here we derive from the underlying mathematical foundation and propose a new class of spectrometer, which harnesses the convolution theorem, one of the most fundamental principles in signal processing ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

What are the most pressing global crises in 2026? Each year, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Emergency Watchlist identifies the countries at greatest risk of new or worsening humanitarian ...

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 ...

ChatGPT kicked off the AI boom, but it was a landmark partnership between its developer OpenAI and software giant Microsoft Corp. that laid its financial foundations. This playbook has been repeated ...

Prathap Parameswaran, associate professor of civil engineering and university outstanding scholar in the Carl R. Ice College of Engineering at Kansas State University, works with Parnian ...

Space is getting busier as national space agencies and private companies increase the tempo of launches. But today’s approach to space exploration is unsustainable, say researchers, and we need to do ...

SoftBank and OpenAI announced a new 50-50 joint venture this week to sell enterprise AI tools in Japan under the brand “Crystal Intelligence.” On paper, it’s a straightforward international expansion ...

The AI boom has triggered a historic spending spree. By 2028, investment in chips, servers and data centers could reach nearly $3 trillion, according to Morgan Stanley. On this episode of Bold Names, ...

Consumers trashed enough clothing last year—120 million metric tons, to be exact—to fill over 200 Olympic stadiums. “Open dumping adds another layer of risk,” the report reads, “releasing harmful ...