Mathematics, like many other scientific endeavors, is increasingly using artificial intelligence. Of course, math is the backbone of AI, but mathematicians are also turning to these tools for tasks ...

When my cofounder and I were accepted into a competitive startup accelerator program in fall 2025, we applied with an ambitious idea: to build an “AI scientist” for machine learning research. What ...

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This is what CES is really all about. Not just massive booths and headline-grabbing announcements, but smaller companies with big ideas. They’re all on display at one of my favorite CES events, Pepcom ...

Neuroscientist Tamara Stawicki woke abruptly to her mobile phone ringing shortly after 1 a.m. on 24 August 2025. After a brief conversation, Stawicki got out of bed and drove to a quiet car park.

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 ...

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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 ...

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