The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

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Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. A high school ...

Calcea Johnson and Ne'Kiya Jackson, who surprised the math world when they produced innovative solutions to a 2,000-year-old puzzle, wowed the math world again when they presented several new ways of ...

A few months before the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in July, a three-person team at OpenAI made a long bet that they could use the competition’s brutally tough problems to train an ...

A fundamental link between two counterintuitive phenomena in spin glasses—reentrance and temperature chaos—has been ...