Decades ago, Paul Erdős used randomness to illuminate the vast and weird world of networks. Now mathematicians are making his ...

As artificial intelligence has continued to infiltrate classrooms and dorm rooms, much of the public narrative has focused on ...

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 ...

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. By Siobhan Roberts Recently there ...

Traditional OEE models are ill-suited for continuous bulk flow environments like grain elevators. A customized ...

With automated proof-checkers, a problem can be broken up into small chunks, solved bit-by-bit, then reassembled with confidence that every piece is correct. For some, this heralds a new area in ...

In James Bell’s math class at Chapman High School, sophomores are trying to pinpoint exactly where two lines cross. The ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal ...

ChatGPT's breakthrough is not what it seems.

A federal judge on May 28 declared that New Hampshire’s 2024 law requiring first-time voters in the state to show proof of U.S. citizenship when they register is unconstitutional. The ruling is a ...

If you are already registered to vote in New Hampshire, the recent court ruling shouldn’t impact you. You still need to bring an ID to vote, but nothing else is changing. For all first-time voters in ...

Artificial intelligence can now solve open research-level mathematics problems — not just competition questions — and the May 2026 issue of Science News documents the moment the field registered that ...