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A Chinese lawyer who fatally poisoned the billionaire gaming tycoon who helped produce the Netflix sci-fi hit “3 Body Problem” has been executed, according to Chinese state media. Xu Yao killed his ...

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 ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

BURMESE PYTHONS ARE ONE OF THE STATE’S MOST FEARSOME INVASIVE SPECIES, AND WHILE THEY MAINTAINED A PRESENCE IN THE EVERGLADES FOR MORE THAN 25 YEARS, A NEW STUDY REVEALS THEY’RE TRAVELING NORTH. JJ ...

Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT ...

Let me tell you a funny story: A few days ago, my 3-year-old told me she had a sore armpit. I asked her some questions, concerned. I assumed she'd strained her lats hanging from the jungle gym, or ...

Tenants at a South Loop luxury high-rise that has been plagued with problems like broken elevators are vowing to fight five-day eviction notices. Since late 2025, there have been 18 complaints to 311 ...

The Polar Loop (Gen 2) is a solid piece of hardware, but it's by no means a straightforward subscription-free alternative to Whoop. That might be the case for some existing Polar watch users craving a ...

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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