Logically, you would think a sleek surface has optimal aerodynamics—but recent research at Tohoku University turns this ...

AI is increasingly being used as collaborators in mathematical research rather than simply as computational tools.

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During testing, the roughly 900-pound bridge held more than 2,000 pounds of concrete blocks spread across its top without ...

The Founder and Principal Researcher at Gazillion Labs is combining bounded stochastic price modeling, market microstructure, proprietary impact models, first-passage analysis, and optimal-transport ...

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Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics. Reading time 10 minutes Will ...

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 ...

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 ...