“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 ...

I cut my teeth getting grounded in principles of design thinking when I launched a strategic design MBA during my university teaching years. Design thinking is essentially a problem-solving process ...

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 ...

California is the land of expensive, useless bureaucracies, which Democrats allow to do nothing but impose more regulations on Californians. More notably, though, the council that is required to meet ...

For the second night in a row, the Reds' bullpen imploded. Luckily, they held on to win on Friday night, but on Saturday, it was a big reason for their 7-4 loss to the Guardians. On Friday, with the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Amazon released firmware update 5.19.2 for various Kindle models in February 2026, which caused a series of bugs, including fast battery drain ...

The new MacBook Neo has apparently been a smash hit, and Apple will likely talk up its success at its next quarterly earnings call. But, in what can be considered a good problem to have, Apple is ...

Texas Roadhouse built a booming business on affordable steak dinners. CEO Jerry Morgan explains how the chain keeps that formula working as beef prices rise. Photo: Poste Golden for WSJ Profits at the ...

The question sounds trivial until you realize the hard part was never counting. It was deciding what counts. Often, AI fails to answer questions like these. These are known as “Erdős problems,” named ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

What are the most pressing global crises in 2026? Each year, the International Rescue Committee’s (IRC) Emergency Watchlist identifies the countries at greatest risk of new or worsening humanitarian ...

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 ...