AI is very good at sounding right even when it's wrong.  Still, if you can't afford to hire a trusted, trained human to help ...

Mathematics is often regarded as the ideal domain for measuring AI progress effectively. Math’s step-by-step logic is easy to track, and its definitive automatically verifiable answers remove any ...

PDFs with accessible mathematics have reached a practical turning point. For the first time, complex equations embedded in PDF documents can be navigated, spoken, and rendered in braille by assistive ...

Photocatalysis promises an efficient conversion of abundant solar energy into usable chemical energy. Polyheptazine imides ...

Very simplified toy models help scientists get started, but the real world is far more complex.

Make the soup anyway. The texts started before we even left Charleston: "Hope you make it!" The airline offered to rebook. A friend sent a screenshot of the forecast — the kind of snow map that turns ...

Anyone familiar with the search for alien life will have heard of the "Goldilocks Zone" around a star. This is defined as the orbital band where the temperature is just right for liquid water to pool ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

Vitalik Buterin argues that security is about closing the gap between user intent and system behavior through overlapping specifications.

Photograph by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr., Food Styling by Micah Morton, Prop Styling by Christina Allen This month, BA Bake ...

In early 2025, a little-known Chinese startup sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley—pushing executives and investors to ...

What do a 20th-century physicist, an 18th-century statistician and an ancient Greek philosopher have in common? They all knew how to extrapolate with incredible accuracy. Columnist Jacob Aron explains ...