For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended ...

A passport is proof that the Indian government has accepted the holder as a citizen and her nationality cannot be questioned by any other country, former Solicitor General of India Harish Salve told ...

Artificial intelligence programs can spot patterns in electrocardiograms that humans miss. Now, one program is going to be widely available — for free — to doctors. By Gina Kolata Gina Kolata has been ...

Belfast-based punk rockers Problem Patterns have released a demo version of their new song “Bodies”. All proceeds from the sale of the song on Bandcamp will be donated to the Anaka Collective to ...

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 ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

“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 ...

China has executed a man who murdered his billionaire boss after a disagreement over the management of Netflix's 3 Body Problem series. Xu Yao was sentenced to death after poisoning Lin Qi, the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) – Tennessee death row inmate Tony Carruthers, who was facing execution by lethal injection Thursday morning, was granted a one year stay of execution after officials struggled ...

A chatbot solution Recently, the company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI, announced that its internal AI model had made progress on a closely related version of this problem, which suggests that Erdős may have ...