A seemingly simple set of rules kicks off a kind of mathematical magic trick, which has kept great minds busy since the 1930s ...

An experiment with 2,520 participants backs Richard Feynman’s answer to every diner’s dilemma: do I want to try something new? In a scene that could have easily featured in an episode of the US ...

The true culprit was identified soon after this HBO documentary came out. A new episode shows that the series was less about who did the killings than about the agony of uncertainty. By Mike Hale At ...

HUNTINGTON COUNTY, Ind. — An Indiana murder case has been solved after nearly 30 years. According to Indiana State Police, 25-year-old Angela Saco was found dead on Huntington County Reservoir ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

Company says work on Paul Erdős planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning OpenAI has claimed a further advance in AI reasoning after its technology successfully tackled an 80-year-old ...

Now the government is trying to end it — using an algorithm. Under a scheme known nationally as the Sunshine Class Placement system, student and teacher allocations will be determined by digital ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

HUNTINGTON CO., Ind. (WISH) — Indiana State Police say they have identified the killer from a 1997 cold case. According to police, on Dec. 21st, 1997, 25-year-old Angela Saco was found dead on ...

An 80-year-old challenge in geometry has been cracked by an artificial-intelligence chatbot after a single prompt from mathematicians at the technology firm OpenAI. The company, based in San Francisco ...

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...