I was watching a show on one of the major streaming platforms last week -- a show I won't name because it doesn't matter. I counted how many times I saw the same ad in a single episode. The answer was ...

For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's ShortWave podcast . Over a century ago, the German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler conducted what became a ...

“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 ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

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 ...

Abstract: Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have recently been utilized to tackle wave equation-based forward and inverse problems. However, they encounter challenges in accurately predicting ...

From classical to rock, musicians tune their instruments to a common pitch so they can play together harmoniously. For at least 80 years, that standard pitch frequency has been A440 Hz — which defines ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Japan doesn’t have too many tourists. It has too many tourists being sent to the same places. Until that changes, talks on solving overtourism will just remain recycled rhetoric. As Japan continues to ...

For the unfamiliar, high-frequency facial wands “use a glass electrode filled with either argon or neon gas and a mild electrical current that passes through the gas, which creates a soft tingling ...

The frequency illusion, also called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, is a cognitive bias in which someone learns a novel word or concept—and then “suddenly” encounters it everywhere, whereas in fact it ...