Awards make China only the fifth country to ever produce two Fields medallists at a single ceremony, and the first in Asia to ...

The 2026 Fields Medals recognize breakthroughs in the math of messy fluids, tangled knots, spinning pencils, and more ...

Dr. Jackson brings more than 20 years of experience in AI, machine learning and data, with deep expertise in enterprise deployment and responsible AI leadership. He most recently served as Chief AI ...

Anthropic has poached such an array of high-profile professors that it has become a punch line in academia. “‘I’m joining ...

Math difficulty is still not well understood. But a systems approach may lead to advances in diagnosis and treatment.

How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – but 100 years on, this trick is a common part of modern maths, says columnist ...

Researchers found that some animals could “count” carrots in a test—and may have better numerical skills than dogs or horses.

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 ...

The drops go beyond the pandemic and cut across income, geographic and racial divides, new data shows. By Claire Cain Miller Francesca Paris and Sarah Mervosh See more of our coverage in your search ...

Axiom Math is giving away a powerful new AI tool. But it remains to be seen if it speeds up research as much as the company hopes. Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a ...

Neutral-atom arrays are a rapidly emerging platform to create quantum computers. In a foundational study led by graduate students Aaron Holman and Yuan Xu from the Will and Yu labs, respectively, the ...

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