The newest “Dragon Hatchling” AI model is testing whether skipping words in intermediate reasoning could cut computational cost.

Her challenge focused on the deep connections between polynomial equations such as 4 x2 – 1 = 0 and the symmetries buried in their solutions. Within a few short months of the conference, by ...

After an OpenAI model presented a possible solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, mathematicians are speculating about which ...

On May 20, 2026, OpenAI made an announcement that shook the mathematical world. An internal AI model — one not available to the public — had come up with a counterexample to the “unit distance” ...

As millions of people were coming down from the excitement of the FIFA World Cup Final at the start of this week, a different kind of excitement was building within the mathematical community. Levent ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

Scientists who employ various research methods in psychology and make breakthroughs that enhance our knowledge about psychology can have a significant impact on our lives. From influencing the ...

Herpes simplex virus partially liquifies the tightly packed, gel-like interior of human cell nuclei to copy itself faster, a new study shows. The research centers on how the nucleus of each human cell ...

Have you ever lost a Word document due to an unexpected PC crash? Just this week, I experienced this firsthand. Hours of work vanished when my document disappeared. I didn’t panic, though, because my ...

Abstract: The Nelder-Mead simplex method is a well-known algorithm enabling the minimization of functions that are not available in closed-form and that need not be differentiable or convex.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...