For years, Rutgers physicist David Shih solved Rubik's Cubes with his children, twisting the colorful squares until the ...

For decades, scientists have tried and failed to explain how the force that binds the heart of atoms together really works.

A computer language designed to robustly verify mathematical theorems and expose logical flaws has been turned towards a ...

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 ...

This problem has stumped scientists for thousands of years and today, we are going to try and solve it together. Chapters: 00 ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Irene Fonseca has been elected a fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest ...

The OpenAI Safety Fellowship is a research-focused programme for individuals interested in understanding how AI systems ...

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 ...

Large language models lack grounding in physical causality — a gap world models are designed to fill. Here's how three distinct architectural approaches (JEPA, Gaussian splats, and end-to-end ...

Researchers tested a research-based intervention with English learners with math difficulty. The intervention proved to boost comprehension and help students synthesize and visualize information, ...

It's time to break out your number two pencil and mathematics skills to see if you can solve a math equation plaguing hundreds online. A simple math problem was recently shared on X by the account ...