It’s wild to think that a math puzzle from the 1200s is now helping power AI, encryption, and the digital world we live in.

Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...

It’s useful to think of our engagement with algorithms as a social contract. Political theorists have long used the social contract as a device to explain why individuals submit to the authority of a ...

AlphaEvolve, an AI system created by Google DeepMind, is helping mathematicians do research at a scale that was previously ...

Part of resolving the political redistricting stalemate, writes Professor Jamie Tucker-Foltz, is creating congressional maps ...

Math scores in the US have been so bad for so long that teachers could be forgiven for trying anything to improve them.

Researchers used IBM’s quantum computers to create scalable quantum circuits that simulate matter under extreme conditions, offering new insight into fundamental forces and the origins of the universe ...

Artificial intelligence has once again pushed the boundaries of what is possible. On November 14, 2025, an AI system, aptly ...

Explore what could happen to Satoshi’s 1 million BTC if quantum computers ever break early Bitcoin addresses and expose their private keys to the first Q-Day attacker.

They're about to learn what hedge-fund investor Jim Simons proved in 1988: Having the same tools as a genius doesn't make you a genius.

In the conversations most companies and regulators hold about "AI ethics," the term is used vaguely and not rooted in that ...

ChatGPT can help with many things—creating images, looking up information, role-playing, solving math problems, programming ...