Two mathematicians have proved that a straightforward question—how hard is it to untie a knot?—has a complicated answer.

A linear sequence goes from one term to the next by always adding (or subtracting) the same value. The number added (or subtracted) at each stage of the linear sequence is called the common difference ...

The researchers discovered that this separation proves remarkably clean. In a preprint paper released in late October, they ...

A new collection of research papers examines how humans conceptualize numbers and the numeral systems we’ve build around them ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have created a database that provides updated predicted structures on a ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly prevalent, integrated into phone apps, search engines and social media platforms ...

Today marks the fifth anniversary of the Apple silicon chip that replaced Intel chips in Apple's Mac lineup. The first Apple ...

DeepMind’s AlphaEvolve helps solve a math puzzle with Terence Tao, showing how AI can now invent new ideas—and prove old ones ...

Using the Helios-1 quantum computer, researchers have used a record-breaking number of error-proof qubits to run the first and biggest quantum simulation of a model for perfect conductivity ...

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Mathematics is the first place where evidence of AI superintelligence is likely to appear, a theoretical computer scientist says. “Will there be a superhuman AI mathematician?” asked theoretical ...