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

Alley Porter, the City of Lawrence's budget strategy director, at lectern, addresses the Lawrence City Commission on Tuesday, June 2, 2026. When the City of Lawrence’s recommended 2027 budget ...

Feynman turned the question into a math problem and solved it there and then, scribbling his workings on pieces of paper. Feynman, who died in 1988, never published his solution, but researchers came ...

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 ...

Company says work on Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning OpenAI has claimed a further advance in AI reasoning after its technology successfully tackled an 80-year-old ...

In traditional math classrooms, students are often expected to report answers rather than explain their mathematical reasoning. Brief responses directed toward the teacher can limit opportunities for ...

A 23‑year‑old amateur maths enthusiast, Liam Price, used ChatGPT‑5.4 Pro to solve one of Erdős’s long‑standing “primitive set” problems, which had remained unresolved since the early 1960s.

Use of generative AI tools for schoolwork has increased among high school students. Though advanced, ChatGPT has limitations and can be misused. Some instructors have incorporated ChatGPT into ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

OpenAI has introduced a new update to ChatGPT that will help users learn math and science concepts in a more interactive way. According to OpenAI’s blog, the feature adds dynamic visual explanations ...

ChatGPT has introduced interactive visual explanations to help users understand maths and science concepts more easily. The feature allows learners to manipulate variables, formulas and graphs in real ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...