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 ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...

A series of offshore earthquakes shook near California's North Coast early Wednesday morning. The quakes included a magnitude 5.1 earthquake about 40 miles west of Petrolia, which struck at 5:45 a.m., ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Goldbach’s conjecture sounds almost too simple: every even number greater than two should be the sum of two primes. Mathematicians have chased it for nearly 300 years, a publisher once offered $1 ...

AI isn’t always the answer — companies often overbuild flashy solutions when simpler fixes work better, wasting time, money and trust. Most AI project failures I have seen do not announce themselves ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it ...

Tim Mulkerin is a freelance writer, editor, and social media manager who has been working in digital media and the tech world since 2016. He has a bachelor's degree in art history and is currently ...

In the spring of 2025, a relationship between two young Florida State University students took a dark turn. Phoenix and Chad had been texting about their classes, grades and social lives. But their ...

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