Large language models can write essays, summarize legal clauses, explain ancient history, draft emails, and produce code that ...

Get your timer out and see whether you can remember the golden rule from grade school math class.

The Nation’s Report Card released Wednesday revealed that a larger percentage of 9-year-old students were performing at or above “Level 200” for both reading math than students that were the same age ...

Bumblebees faced with a challenge know how to play ball. Buff-tailed bumblebees can figure out on their own how to use a ball as a ladder to nab sugar from an out-of-reach fake flower, researchers ...

Despite having tiny brains, bumblebees have demonstrated a remarkable ability to socially learn how to use tools, solve simple puzzles, and cooperate to achieve a goal. It seems they can also solve ...

In a new study, bumble bees solve a completely novel object-manipulation task. What makes this behavior especially remarkable is that the bees had never been trained. The findings challenge the ...

Working memory is like a mental chalkboard we use to store temporary information while executing other tasks. Scientists worked with more than 200 elementary students to test their working memory, ...

Just a week after an AI disproved an 80-year-old conjecture and astonished mathematicians, another conjecture that had stood for half a century has fallen, inspired by the same techniques, but this ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Little progress had been made in solving Ramsey problems since the 1930s. Now, researchers have found the answer to r(4,t), a longstanding Ramsey problem that has perplexed the math world for decades.

3 Body Problem seasons 2 and 3 may not feature one actor from season 1. Based on the novel by Liu Cixin, the sci-fi Netflix series from creators David Benioff, D.B. Weiss, and Alexander Woo released ...

The Powerball winning numbers are in for the Monday, Feb. 2 drawing with an estimated jackpot of $65 million ($29.4 million cash value). The largest winning Powerball jackpot ticket sold in Michigan ...