For more than a decade, mathematicians have been unable to settle the question of whether the ABC conjecture has been solved.

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If it works, it ain't stupid. Graceful and smart solutions don't always have to be complicated—there's a lot of beauty in simplicity. Especially simplicity that gives great results. Today, we are ...

Nvidia’s latest announcement goes a step further, proposing to greatly reduce the immense amounts of water (300,000 gallons per day for a mid-size facility) guzzled by data centers to keep their ...

Authorities have finally solved the murder of a Las Vegas man who was strangled to death with a telephone cord inide his home more than 20 years ago, thanks to modern DNA testing. The case dates back ...

A new AI framework called THOR is transforming how scientists calculate the behavior of atoms inside materials. Instead of relying on slow simulations that take weeks of supercomputer time, the system ...

In a world where mathematical breakthroughs rarely make headlines, Indian mathematician Neena Gupta has achieved something extraordinary — solving a 70-year-old problem that had challenged some of the ...

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts for 80 years. This was considered among the most important unsolved ...