Since the mid-1990s, Social Security trustees have warned lawmakers that insolvency was coming in the 2030s. Why are ...

A new study combines Large Language Models and behavioral mathematics to analyze human decision-making text data at scale.

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

CNN's Harry Enten dropped bad news on Democrats, breaking down the simple "math problem" that could keep them from gaining control of the Senate.

Brown University professor caught 50+ students cheating with AI on a compassionate take-home exam, exposing gaps in academic ...

In 1945, as the first atomic bomb exploded in the New Mexico desert, Enrico Fermi stood miles away, holding a few scraps of paper. As the shockwave rolled toward him, he dropped the papers and watched ...

Chalkbeat Ideas is a section featuring reported columns on the big ideas and debates shaping American schools. Sign up for the Ideas newsletter to follow our work. For much of the last few decades, ...

At 14, the boy passed the entrance exam for Korea Science Academy — the country's first school for gifted students — completing middle school early. He t ...

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 ...

OpenAI said one of its internal models had made a breakthrough with a challenge first posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős in 1946. Experts say this result could indicate that AI is capable of ...

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 ...