When Ed Scheinerman's 7-year-old granddaughter asked the question that every mathematician secretly loves—"What is the number before infinity?"—he knew he was onto something. "You're not going to like ...

Artificial intelligence, as it stands today, isn’t cheap. The leaders in the field are spending tens of billions of dollars on chips, data centers and more, running up steep losses so far. That has ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

As io9 has thoroughly glazed in detail, 2025 was a definitive year for anime films, thanks in part to the meteoric box-office success of Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle. As the film prepares for award ...

Barclays raises 2026 Brent forecast to $85 a barrel on Strait of Hormuz disruption Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching ...

The first installment features some of the best fights in the series, but it’s far from over since the Demon Slayers are still trapped inside the endless labyrinth while Muzan Kibutsuki is buying time ...

The infinite hotel paradox imagines a hotel with endless rooms that somehow runs out of space. Even when new guests arrive, the manager can always make room—until the logic collapses under its own ...

Building on a decade of collaboration that began in 2012 with the launch of CBS Sports Radio, Cumulus Media’s Westwood One and Audacy are joining forces once again, announcing that the Infinity Sports ...

While Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle continues to make infinity dollars at the box office, there is one major problem fans seem to have with the big screen anime adaptation. Dan Casey dives into the ...

Professor Curtis T. McMullen received the 1998 Fields Medal, deemed the most prestigious award in mathematics, for his work on complex dynamics. McMullen is also the creator of the Illustrating ...